I’m trying to run a set of actions through a Katalon suite and every single step in the included scripts is taking exactly 30 seconds to run once the script hits a certain point, across all scripts, as seen here: [image] Additionally the Suite Results are showing a 30 second object timeout value …

[image] kevin.jackey: SmartWait seems very effective, but still appears to have some bugs in the system… Well, I have a different oppinion. I know the implementation of SmarWait (wait.js) works perfect to achieve what it is designed to do. SmartWait is just another way of wait for the target…

I agree that the assumptions being made are definitely flaky; however the end result seems to work 99% of the time and (as you’ve stated above and in the link you provided) at present there doesn’t appear to be a more effective method :frowning:

Because SmartWait is unreliable weapon, I would request Katalon to make the “Default Smart Wait” to be set “disabled”. → @vu.tran @Elly_Tran @duyluong

The only problem there is (as I have experienced) turning it off leads to even WORSE problems (at least for me), as then the script attempts to execute every step as fast as possible and leaves a horribly long trail of errors on pages that DO have some slow loading elements, it’s a catch-22. The on…

@kevin.jackey Are you a paying customer of Katalon? Are you qualified raising an official support request? If so, would you please raise one for this issue, and let them know. And let them work on making SmartWait better (less troublesome). A little discussion in this forum might not be enough for …

[image] kevin.jackey: The only other alternative is to set an extremely long element wait time, which also causes other problems… Depends. Are you waiting on XHR-type stuff? Perhaps a change in wait-philosophy might help. Generally speaking, there are usually “effects” of data changing on a …

[image] Russ_Thomas: than to wait for specific calls to complete. or, simplified, for the entire page to be ‘stable’ (a problem smart wait attempts to solve). which, as already shown, in certain cases can be undetermined

In Stale element not found, is this relate to using same Object? - #113 by kazurayam , I reported that the WebUI.enableSmartWait keyword does not work as I expect Today, I have found out the reason why. I had a look at the source of com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.KatalonSmartEventListener and fo…

@kevin.jackey Katalon would never change anything about the SmartWait settings, as they are obliged to respect the backward compatibility. So more and more people would get confused by the SmartWait in future, just as you were. You are supposed to accept the current design of Smart Wait. You alre…

Katalon suite taking 30 seconds between steps and I can't figure out why

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grylion54 November 17, 2023, 5:26pm 31

Hope the below examples of “wait” statements can help. This is what I use and sometimes double up on them, like “visible” and “clickable” or “pageload” and “visible”…

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