Selenium - page load timeout

Question

Is it possible to set timeout for page load in Selenium test?

I have a problem, when sometimes test execution freezes on page load (application doesn't load new page, test hangs up), so test needs to be killed manually - this wouldn't be a problem if I would run only one test on nightly bases.

As I understand driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout() only works on driver.get(URL) method - it doesn't work when Selenium clicks buttons and links during test execution. Is this correct? How can I manage time of wait for every page load?

Answer 1

You're correct that Click() will not wait for a page load, so the page load timeout does not apply. I follow clicks with a wait for some element that I know will be on the page that is loading. You can setup an implicit timeout

driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5));

and then simply try to find the appropriate element

link.Click();

// implicit timeout
var element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[contains(@class, 'alert-error')] | //ul[id('menu')]"));

or use an explicit timeout/wait. Note that the implicit timeout still affects this code, so any explicit timeouts should be longer than the implicit setting otherwise they won't really do anything.

link.Click();

// explicit timeout
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5));
var element = wait.Until(driver => driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[contains(@class, 'alert-error')] | //ul[id('menu')]")));