To suspend the execution of the webdriver for milliseconds you can pass number of seconds or floating point number of seconds as follows: import time time.sleep(1) #sleep for 1 sec time.sleep(0.25) #sleep for 250 milliseconds However while using Selenium and WebDriver for Automation using time.sleep(secs) without any specific condition to achieve defeats the purpose of … Read more
Element … is not clickable at point (x, y). Other element would receive the click” can be caused for different factors. You can address them by either of the following procedures: Element not getting clicked due to JavaScript or AJAX calls present Try to use Actions Class: WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id(“id1”)); Actions actions = new … Read more
WebDriver Interface From Selenium‘s perspective, the What is the difference between ChromeDriver and WebDriver in selenium? interface is similar like a agreement which the 3rd party Browser Vendors like Mozilla, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc have to adhere and implement the same. This would in-turn help the end-users to use the exposed APIs to write … Read more
WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (x, y) This is a typical org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException which extends java.lang.RuntimeException. The fields of this exception are : BASE_SUPPORT_URL : protected static final java.lang.String BASE_SUPPORT_URL DRIVER_INFO : public static final java.lang.String DRIVER_INFO SESSION_ID : public static final java.lang.String SESSION_ID About your individual usecase, the error tells it all : … Read more
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); If you use ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); the ChromeDriver instance which will get created through that we will be only able to invoke and act on the methods implemented by ChromeDriver and supported by Chrome Browser only. To act with other browsers we have to specifically create individual objects … Read more
NoSuchElementException selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException popularly known as NoSuchElementException is defined as : exception selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException(msg=None, screen=None, stacktrace=None) NoSuchElementException is basically thrown in 2 cases as follows : When using : webdriver.find_element_by_*(“expression”) //example : my_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(“xpath_expression”) When using : element.find_element_by_*(“expression”) //example : my_element = element.find_element_by_*(“expression”) As per the API Docs just like any other selenium.common.exceptions, NoSuchElementException should contain … Read more
Selenium Selenium is a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms. Primarily it is used for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Selenium has the support of all of the major browser vendors who have taken (or are taking) steps … Read more