Selenium WebElement.click() vs. Javascript click event

Question

I was wondering what the differences are between calling the click() method of the WebElement versus finding the element by id and firing the click

Answer 1

Those kind of tests are E2E (end to end) not BDD.

First one – is executed now, to take next action you must write some function that will delay execution for e.g download new data from server.

The second code return promise – http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/javascript/class_webdriver_WebElement.html – „Schedules a command to click on this element.” – you can use then callback to run next action.