How to: Loop (while?) to check if element exist and if not - refresh page

Web Testing
1

Hi,

I’m trying to establish small script which will work in loop. The case is to open webpage and check if element (defined by xpath) exist on web page. If not - lets reload webpage and check again. If not - refresh and… If element will be present - go to next step (perhaps to click it - but it’s easy ;)).

Been digging a bit and the best what I found is to work something easy like

while (WebUI.verifyElementPresent(findTestObject('test_page//button_reservation'), 1)) {    WebUI.refresh()}

But it’s returning error like

Unable to verify object 'test_page/button_reservation' is present (Root cause: com.kms.katalon.core.webui.exception.WebElementNotFoundException: Web element with id: 'test_page/button_reservation' located by 'By.xpath: .//*[@type="submit"]' not found)

And the page is not refreshed.
My inspiration for while was script which is executed well:

int varA = 2
while (varA == true){
webUiBuiltInKeywords.acceptAlert(FailureHandling.STOP_ON_FAILURE)}

Would be lovely to get any suggestion

2

I have the same problem. If anyone has any suggestion, will be great

3

1. Pay attention to the ‘Parent iframe’

2. Pay attention to ‘Detect object by’ (just click the ensured property)

3. Try to waitForElementVisible method

4. Try to increase the timeout value

4

any suggestion ? i’m facing the same issue,

i’m about to loop while an object not exist, then click next button until the object exist

5

You could try this:

I avoid an infinite loop by adding a counter.
I do use this in a keyword method in my tests though

int intCnt = 0

boolean booElePre = WebUI.verifyElementPresent(findTestObject(‘test_page/button_reservation’), 1)

while (!booElePre && intCnt < 5) {

sleep(5000)

booElePre = WebUI.verifyElementPresent(findTestObject(‘test_page/button_reservation’), 1)

intCnt ++

}

6

did you manage how to fix the “Unable to verify object” in your While ? experiencing same prblm. thanks