Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook - Second Edition

Synchronizing a test with custom-expected conditions

With the explicit wait mechanism, we can also build custom-expected conditions along with common conditions using the ExpectedConditions class. This comes in handy when a wait cannot be handled with a common condition supported by the ExpectedConditions class.

In this recipe, we will explore how to create a custom condition.

How to do it...

We will create a test that will create a wait until an element appears on the page using the ExpectedCondition class as follows:

@Test public void testExplicitWait() { WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); // Launch the sample Ajax application driver.get("http://cookbook.seleniumacademy.com/AjaxDemo.html"); try { driver.findElement(By.linkText("Page 4")).click(); ...