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Girish Bellamkonda
Girish Bellamkonda

Reputation: 501

How to decrease the wait time for NoSuchElementException in Selenium?

In some cases, i know element will not be displayed. but its waiting ~30 Secs.

How to decrease wait time for NoSuchElementException in selenium?

Sample code: 

String name;
        try {    
            name = driver.findElement(By.xpath("XPath")).getText();
        } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
            name = "Name not displayed";
        }

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3144

Answers (3)

prithvi394
prithvi394

Reputation: 221

We can use explicit wait for this scenario but have to be careful with the expected conditions being used.

WebDriverWait wait=new WebDriverWait(driver,10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(locator));

Sometimes visibilityOf(Name) will not work since mostly finding of webelement name needs the findElement statement to be used.

WebElement name=driver.findElement(Locator);

This step may fail if element is not present!

Upvotes: 0

Issam El-atif
Issam El-atif

Reputation: 2486

Use WebDriverWait to decrease waiting time ex (wait 5 seconds):

(new WebDriverWait(driver, 5)).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(name));

Upvotes: 1

Len
Len

Reputation: 2145

I think you're looking for setting the implitic wait time for your driver:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

For simple cases thats ok to use, for more advanced automation, I'd change it to an explicit wait (using WebDriverWait).

More on waits: http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp

Upvotes: 2

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