Explicit and Implicit wait in Selenium

Implicit and Explicit Wait There are two types of waiting mechanism available in Selenium

1. Explicit Wait
2. Implicit Wait

Explicit Wait

• Explicit Wait will make your code to wait for certain condition to occur before moving forward.
• This can be achieved with the combination of WebDriverWait and ExpectedConditions
• WebDriverWait by default calls ExpectedCondition to poll by every 500 milliseconds until it returns successfully.

Code Snippet

public static void ExplicitWait(WebDriver driver, WebElement element) {
   (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(element));
}

Implicit Wait

• Implicit wait make the code to wait for an element to appear in DOM
• Implicit wait timeout once set, is set for the lifetime of the WebDriver Object Instance.

Code Snippet

public static void ImplicitWait(WebDriver driver) {
   driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

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