verifyElementPresent should not have a timeout parameter, or it should accept a value of 0

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Generally speaking, when using a function like “verifyElementPresent”, the tester would like to evaluate the presence of an element at the time the function is called.

As such, the current implementation:

WebUI.verifyElementPresent(TestObject to, int timeout)

should not include a timeout. This could be handled in either of the following ways:

1.) Remove the timeout implementation completely.
2.) Allow for the timeout parameter to accept ‘0’. Currently, if the tester gives a value of ‘0’, it appears that the studio defaults back to 30 seconds:


The current workaround is to set timeout = 1. Obviously, this is not ideal.

Thanks!

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For those that are interested, here’s another workaround that gives a close-to-zero response time:

try {

boolean isVisible = WebUI.verifyElementVisible(`findTestObject(``'myTestObject'``)`);

return isVisible;

}

catch(StepFailedException e) {

return false;

}

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