Differences between impilicit, explicit and fluentwait

Question

What are the exact differences between implicitwait(), explicitwait() and fluentwait()? Could you explain with examples?

Answer 1

An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further in the code. The worst case of this is Thread.sleep(), which sets the condition to an exact time period to wait. There are some convenience methods provided that help you write code that will wait only as long as required. WebDriverWait in combination with ExpectedCondition is one way this can be accomplished.Example is as follows:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("someid")));

However, depending on the language implementation varies a little bit. See here more about ExpectedCondition interface

An implicit wait is to tell WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available. The default setting is 0. Once set, the implicit wait is set for the life of the WebDriver object instance. Below is an implementation of implicit wait:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Both of these definitions are from seleniumhq and most perfect definitions out there.

Fluent Wait Just another mechanism to wait for element. It provides some distinct mechanisms for polling the DOM to find the element. One of the greatest features it provides is to wait for the element ignoring certain exceptions. See this