How to increase the execution speed through Selenium and Webdriver

Question

Test is very slow during execution of the script without knowing the reason.

This is my script :

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);       
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20);
driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Register Here")).Click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(
    SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.InvisibilityOfElementLocated(
        (By.XPath("//div[@class='loader-wrapper    ng-trigger ng-trigger-visibilityChanged ng-animating']"))));
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(.//*[normalize-space(text()) and    normalize-space(.)='Organization    Type'])[2]/following::select[1]")).Click();
new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(.//*[normalize-space(text())    and normalize-space(.)='Organization    Type'])[2]/following::select[1]"))).SelectByText("Hospital");
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(.//*[normalize-space(text()) and    normalize-space(.)='Organization    Type'])[2]/following::button[1]")).Click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(
    SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.InvisibilityOfElementLocated(
        (By.XPath("//div[@class='loader-wrapper    ng-trigger ng-trigger-visibilityChanged ng-animating']"))));
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(.//*[normalize-space(text()) and    normalize-space(.)='Phone    Number'])[1]/following::button[1]")).Click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(
    SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.InvisibilityOfElementLocated(
        (By.XPath("//div[@class='loader-wrapper    ng-trigger ng-trigger-visibilityChanged ng-animating']"))));

try
{
    Assert.AreEqual("Title is Required.", driver.FindElement(By.XPath("(.//*[normalize-space(text()) and    normalize-space(.)='Title'])[1]/following::span[1]")).Text);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    verificationErrors.Append(e.Message);
}

Any suggestion how to make the test faster ?

Answer 1

A simple step to make your script/program faster would be to:

• Remove all the instances of ImplicitWait as:
  • You are extensively using WebDriverWait i.e. Explicit Wait

As per the documentation of Explicit and Implicit Waits:

WARNING: Do not mix implicit and explicit waits. Doing so can cause unpredictable wait times. For example setting an implicit wait of 10 seconds and an explicit wait of 15 seconds, could cause a timeout to occur after 20 seconds.