As you mentioned in your question it takes too much time to load the whole page(especially when some resource is unavailable) is pretty much possible if the Application Under Test (AUT) uses JavaScript or AJAX Calls. In your first scenario you have induced both set_page_load_timeout(5) and set_script_timeout(5) set_page_load_timeout(time_to_wait) : Sets the amount of time to … Read more
As per the documentation of Explicit and Implicit Waits it is clearly mentioned that: Do not mix implicit and explicit waits. Doing so can cause unpredictable wait times. For example setting an implicit wait of 10 seconds and an explicit wait of 15 seconds, could cause a timeout to occur after 20 seconds. Still if … Read more
implicitlyWait() implicitlyWait() is to tell the WebDriver instance i.e. driver to poll the HTML DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available. The default wait configuration is set to 0. Once set, the implicit wait is set for the life of the … Read more
time.sleep(secs) time.sleep(secs) suspends the execution of the current thread for the given number of seconds. The argument may be a floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep time. The actual suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will terminate the sleep() following execution of that signal’s catching routine. … Read more
Implicit Wait : Implicit Wait is the way to configure the WebDriver instance to poll the HTML DOM for a configured amount of time when it tries to find an element or find a group/collection of elements if they are not immediately available. As per the current W3C specification the default time is configured to … Read more
ImplicitWait ImplicitWait is an implementation to configure the WebDriver instance i.e. the driver to poll the HTML DOM for a certain amount of time (interms of NANOSECONDS, MICROSECONDS, MILLISECONDS, SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS or DAYS) when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available. The default setting is 0 which means … Read more
Implicit wait is defined once right after the driver initialization for the driver life time, and it sets the maximum amount of time for the driver to look foe WebElement. Explicit wait is used to wait up to the given amount of time for the WebElement to be in cretin condition, and need to be … Read more
ImplicitWait ImplicitWait as per the Java Docs is to specify the amount of time the WebDriver instance i.e. the driver should wait when searching for an element if it is not immediately present in the HTML DOM in-terms of NANOSECONDS, MICROSECONDS, MILLISECONDS, SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS or DAYS when trying to find an element or elements … Read more