The Protractor Handbook: Understanding and Implementing the Tool Effectively

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8. Waits and Timeouts

Shashank Shukla¹  

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Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, India

 

This chapter discusses waits. Unreliability in tests occurs due to rare conditions between the browser and the automation tool’s instructions. There are times when the browser lags, and the automation tool’s instructions are executed even when the element is not yet available in the DOM. Sometimes the element loads after a few seconds, depending on the network bandwidth server response time or how animation-intensive the web page is.

This chapter examines three ways to handle waits in Protractor or Selenium.