C# WebDriverWait will not wait longer than 60 seconds.

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 4874

Description
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I have ran into a situation where I need to wait for an expected condition for more
than 3 minutes (at times up to 1.5 hours). When using WebDriverWait, no matter what
I set the timeout to, it throws an exception after 60 seconds every time.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
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1. Create WebDriverWait object with a time greater than 60 seconds.
2. Perform the wait on an ExpectedCondition.ElementExists(By)
3. Execute test

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
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It should throw the exception after 2 minutes. Instead it is throwing the exception
after 60 seconds.

Selenium version: 2.26.0
OS: Windows 7 Enterprise
Browser: Firefox
Browser version: 17

I also tried setting the implicit wait to 2 minutes and just using a driver.FindElement
and it also threw an exception after 60 seconds. Below is a sample demonstrating this
behavior.


IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2));

Console.Out.WriteLine("Start: " + DateTime.Now);
try {
    IWebElement e = wait.Until<IWebElement>(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Id("null")));
} catch(Exception ex) {
    Console.Out.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}

Console.Out.WriteLine("End: " + DateTime.Now);

driver.Quit();

Reported by Daniel.Dale.Armstrong on 2012-12-05 17:09:00

[lukeis]

Each driver class has a constructor overload that allows you to set the timeout for
each command. Here is an example for the FirefoxDriver to set the command timeout to
5 minutes:

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxBinary(), null, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5));

You can find similar constructor overloads for InternetExplorerDriver, ChromeDriver,
and RemoteWebDriver.

Reported by james.h.evans.jr on 2012-12-05 17:20:45

• Status changed: WorkingAsIntended

[lukeis]

When using these constructors it appears that the WebDriverWait is overridden.

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxBinary(), null, TimeSpan.FromHours(2));

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2));
...

This caused it to wait for 2 hours rather than two minutes. Is this the expected behavior?

Reported by Daniel.Dale.Armstrong on 2012-12-05 18:50:19

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:16:26

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