Sin of Using Thread.sleep() in Selenium Scripts for Waits
Wait problem is probably the most common errors in Selenium scripts especially for Javascript rich web applications. How long a Selenium script should wait before interacting with web elements? 2s / 5s / 15s / 1min? Until interested page is loaded? Until all images of a page are downloaded? Until all AJAX requests have been completed? Until all manipulation of DOM elements is complete? It has been observed that people frequently wait for a fixed duration in their Selenium script using Thread.sleep() function before interacting with a web element. It is a worst kind of wait that can be used in a script. Then, why people use it? One reason could be ignorance but mostly it could be due to carelessness or unavailability of time to complete a quality (stable) script. What are some ways to discourage team members to not use Thread.sleep() or similar method in t