any alternative to Thread.sleep()

[Tanusree Mukherjee]

Can anyone advice me any alternative for Thread.sleep(0, when ever I'm taking it off, my test is failing as the element is not found.

@BeforeMethod

public static void  setUp() throws Exception {

System.out.println("Common @BeforeMethod setUp");

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(120, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.get(baseUrl);

}

I also wrote a method for delay but when ever I'm calling it , it's not giving me the alternative of Thread.sleep(),

For my test case, the scenario is , I need to select a tab from some menu , then directing to that page,then selecting item from  drop down boxes, then based on that I need to click on search button. Now  I definitely need some wait method. But I don't know what can I use as an alternative to Thread.sleep!

public static void explicitWait(final String locator, final int type) {

WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10))

 .until(new ExpectedCondition<WebElement>(){

public WebElement apply(WebDriver d) {

switch (type) {

case 1 : return d.findElement(By.cssSelector(locator));

case 2 : return d.findElement(By.xpath(locator));

case 3 : return d.findElement(By.id(locator));

case 4 : return d.findElement(By.name(locator));

case 5 : return d.findElement(By.linkText(locator));

default:

return d.findElement(By.id(locator));

}

}});

}

Any help will be highly appreciated.

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Regards.
Tanusree

[Stefan Teixeira]

Use WebDriverWait, check out this post: http://automatingsoftwaretesting.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/why-webdriverwait-thread-sleep/

After you read it, check the ExpectedConditions class in the API: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/ExpectedConditions.html


Regards,
Stefan.

2012/8/1 Tanusree Mukherjee <tanumm...@gmail.com>

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[Tanusree Mukherjee]

Thanks Stefan.

I'll try this solution.

Best Regards.

Tanusree

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Tanusree

[Karthik Kulkarni]

you can also use

driver.manage().timeouts().<which ever _method>(5,TimeUnits. <Time unit of your choice>)

[Stefan Teixeira]

The implicit wait (driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(seconds, TimeUnits.SECONDS)) is also an option. But I don't like this approach very much, because when you need to verify if an element is not present, the driver will wait for the entire time you defined to return false.


2012/8/2 Karthik Kulkarni <kulkarni...@gmail.com>:

[ephraim vallejo]

you can try something like this

WebElement someItem = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//")));

someItem.click();

and because it is a wait.  This waits for however long you set your wait for.

you can also try explicit waits.