Selenium WebDriver throws Timeout exceptions sporadically

Question

Using selenium for ui tests on our project. We are running the newest version 2.30.0. We use Firefox WebDriver and are running Firefox 19.0.

Generally said the ui te

Answer 1

We faced a similar issue on our project. The problem had nothing to do with Selenium or our app. It was timing out because the build server config for that project was supposed to timeout in 5 minutes. But all our tests were not getting completed in 5 minutes, hence the build was failing due to timeout issues randomly.

Also we had a problem with firefox-19, the tests used to fail randomly. Somehow, firefox-10 only worked for our selenium tests.