
Explore defining exceptions in Selenium, compare checked and unchecked exceptions, and distinguish syntax, runtime, and logical errors, with cross-language examples and practical handling strategies.
Learn how selenium uses the web driver exception class to handle runtime errors in browser automation, enabling unattended tests, clear logs, and easier debugging.
Explore common Selenium not found exceptions such as no such element, no such frame or window, and no alert, and learn to handle them with driver wait and try/catch.
Explore handling Selenium stale element reference and element not interactable exceptions, reattaching dropdown elements, and using Stack Overflow and community resources for robust test automation.
Learn how to handle selenium exceptions, including stale element and index out of bounds errors, using try-catch and generic exceptions, with a page object model and relative locator concepts.
Exceptions and errors are part and parcel of coding activities. As we use Selenium for different activtities which primarily involves driving the browser, we will come across issues as we use a programming language to implement it. Selenium primarily just drives the browser, what we do with that power is entirely upto us. Selenium doesn't comeup with any ability to handle exceptions, the onus of it lies on the programming language we will use to implement Selenium.
In this brief course we have tried to talk about exceptions, errors and a few most common exceptions one can encounter while working with Selenium .
WebDriverException is the parent class from which all exceptions are derived. The implementation of this class and its sub classes is same across different libraries of selenium found in different programming languages.
Some of the exceptions we see in this video are NotFoundException like NoSuchElementFound, NoAlertFound, NoWindowException, NoFrameException, StaleElementException ElementNotInteractableException
and then we see recreating them using code and websites examples.
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