Question

I’m looking for solution to get time to click on element using implicitlyWait in WebDriver (Java)

Example:
Let’s say I will start WebDriver with implicitlyWait = 30 seconds

Afterwards:
webElement.click();

Method click() will wait for element, 30 seconds, and when element will be visible and ready to click->WebDriver will click on it, but how we can take time that WebDriver spend to click on element, any ideas how I can get this value without using any Watch?

Answer 1

Internally, the implicit wait just calls the findElement() over and over again discarding any ElementNotFoundExceptions until there is an element returned or the time runs out.

You could write your own findElementImplicitlyWait() by doing just that – it’s far from perfect, but it should do the trick.

1. Set your implicitlyWait to 0.
2. create a new newFindElement() method that calls the findElement() until it returns an element without throwing an exception or until 30 seconds run out.
3. Use the time to your liking.

The code below (hopefully compilable =) ) tries to do that and sout the waiting time.

private static final long WAIT_TIME = 30000;

public WebElement findElement(final By by) {
    WebElement elem = null;
    long targetTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + WAIT_TIME;
    do {
        try {
            elem = driver.findElement(by);
        } catch (NoSuchElementException ignored) {
            // nothing to do, element not found
        }
    } while ((elem == null) && (System.currentTimeMillis() < targetTime));
    if (elem == null) {
        throw new NoSuchElementException("No such element found: " + by);
    }
    System.out.println("Waited for " + (targetTime - System.currentTimeMillis()) + " ms.");
    return elem;
}