SELENIUM : What is Implicit wait in Selenium WebDriver?
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SELENIUM : What is Implicit wait in Selenium WebDriver?
Implicit wait in Selenium WebDriver is a global timeout that instructs the WebDriver to wait for a certain amount of time before throwing a "NoSuchElementException".
The implicit wait is set once for the entire duration of the WebDriver instance, and it applies to all elements that the WebDriver interacts with.
When we set an implicit wait, the WebDriver waits for the specified amount of time before throwing an exception if the element is not found.
If the element is found before the timeout, the WebDriver continues with the execution of the test script.
The implicit wait is applied to all findElement() and findElements() methods in the WebDriver.
Here's an example of how to set an implicit wait in Selenium WebDriver:
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
In the above example, we set the implicit wait to 10 seconds using the implicitlyWait() method of the WebDriver.Timeouts() interface.
This means that the WebDriver will wait for up to 10 seconds for an element to be found before throwing a "NoSuchElementException" exception.
If the element is found within the 10 seconds, the WebDriver will continue with the execution of the test script.
