Waits & Synchronization

Summary

Ensuring a script waits for a page or element to be ready before interacting with it — the single most common source of flaky, unreliable automated tests when handled incorrectly.

• 1Replace a hardcoded sleep() in a script with an explicit wait condition.
• 2Learn the difference between implicit waits, explicit waits, and fixed sleeps.
• 3Understand why fixed sleeps are almost always the wrong choice — too slow or too fragile.