I have written few test cases in Selenium WebDriver using Java and execute them on grid (hub and multiple nodes). I have noticed that a few test cases fail due to NoSuchElementException
. What is the best and robust way to avoid NoSuchElementException
and ensure the element is always found?
You can never be sure that element will be found, actually this is purpose of functional tests - to tell you if anything changed on your page. But one thing which definitely helps is to add waits for the elements which are often causing NoSuchElementException
like
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, timeoutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id<locator>));