Java WebDriver wait for page to load

Question

I want to get exception of page load, but still have not results on it. I use implicitlyWait to set timer to throw exception.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(1, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
driver.get("http://www.rambler.ru");
driver.quit();

Could somebody please update me with suggestions? I need this to make sure that page load will not be infinite, and if time to load will be more than I've defined in timer -> throw exception as result and skip TC (as failed).

Thank you, Volodymyr

Answer 1

Why are you using implicit wait before the opening of the page? Try to use explicit wait. Find some major page element at ramber(for example, the search textbox). For example:

 WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 5);
 wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("xpath_to_search_textbox")));

until() method will throw TimeoutException if search text box will not appear within 5 seconds.