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Provides wrapper functions to leverage commonly used WebDriverWaits. Note that this does not provide exhaustive functionality, and customer WebDriverWaits will still be needed for complex or unique scenarios.

Simple Usage

To instantiate a class that manages simple WebDriver interactions:

// WebDriverFactory is not required. You can pass in your own IWebDriver to DriverHandler instead.
IWebDriver driver = new WebDriverFactory(BrowserType.Chrome).GetDriver();
DriverHandler handler = new(driver);
handler.NavigateToPage("http://www.some-page.com/");

To instantiate a class that manages simple interactions with a single IWebElement (note: this uses a Page Object Model approach):

public class SomePageUnderTest
{
    public SomePageUnderTest(IWebDriver driver)
    {
        _Driver = driver;
    }

    // Note that this will not save any settings (e.g. StartButton.SetTimeoutSeconds(30)) made after object instantiation.
    // Use an explicit getter with a private backing field for that.
    public ElementHandler SomeButton => new (_Driver, By.CssSelector("div[id='someId']"));

    private IWebDriver _Driver;
}

public class SomeTest
{
    public SomeTest()
    {
        IWebDriver driver = new WebDriverFactory(BrowserType.Chrome).GetDriver();
        _Handler = new(driver);
    }

    private DriverHandler _Handler;

    // Also works with other runners like MSTest and NUnit
    [Fact]
    public void Testing()
    {
        // Arrange
        SomePageUnderTest put = new(_Handler.WrappedDriver);
        _Handler.NavigateToPage("http://www.some-page.com/");

        // Act
        // Below automatically waits for the element to exist and be clickable before executing.
        put.SomeButton.Click();

        // Assert (pretend the button disappears after clicking it.)
        // Default timeout is 15s. Override for this call.
        Assert.True(put.SomeButton.SetTimeoutSeconds(5).WaitForNotDisplayed(),
            "The button did not disappear within 5s after clicking it.");
    }
}

Complex Use Cases

Using the same structure as above, we can create complex use cases

public void SomeTest
{
    // Same setup as above.

    // Also works with other runners like MSTest and NUnit
    [Fact]
    public void SomeOtherTest()
    {
        // Arrange
        // Note: to reduce code duplication, this can be abstracted out into the Page Object for small projects,
        // Or into an explicit class of grouped actions for large projects.
        SomePageUnderTest put = new(_Handler.WrappedDriver);
        _Handler.NavigateToPage("http://www.some-page.com/");

        // Act and Assert
        // Sometimes the site is slow to load, and the initial click doesn't do anything.
        // For whatever reason, dev team won't fix.

        WebDriverWait wait = new(_Handler.WrappedDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
        wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes(
            typeof(NoSuchElementException),
            typeof(InvalidElementStateException),
            typeof(ElementNotVisibleException),
            typeof(StaleElementReferenceException),
            typeof(ElementClickInterceptedException));
        
        // If the button continues to be displayed once the 30s timeout is reached,
        // This will throw a WebDriverTimeout exception.
        // Note: if you want a friendly assert message,
        //   you can wrap just this block of code in a try/catch(WebDriverException) and selectively assign a variable true or false / assert on the result.
        // Best practice in that scenario is to abstract out to a harness page object or group action object as soon as a second instance of this pattern is used.
        wait.Until(x => x
        {
            IWebElement someButton = x.FindElement(put.SomeButton.Locator);
            someButton.Click();
            return !someButton.Displayed;
        })
    }
}