Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

Try...catch exception handling

Now, sometimes the user will want to trap an exception instead of throwing it, and perform some other action such as retry, reload page, cleanup dialogs, and so on. In cases like that, the user can use try...catch in Java to trap the exception. The action would be included in the try clause, and the user can decide what to do in the catch condition.

Here is a simple example that uses the ExpectedConditions method to look for an element on a page, and only return true or false if it is found. No exception will be raised:

/** * elementExists - wrapper around the WebDriverWait method to * return true or false * * @param element * @param timer * @throws Exception */public static boolean elementExists(WebElement ...