Wait!!! These four letters can drive you crazy if you are having a bad day using Webdriver... Thus if you are reading this article you are already in the middle of one bad bad day...thus I'll cut the crap and go directly into the ways you can add waits using webdriver: Type 1 - Using driver.manager.timeouts() Implicit Waits - When you set this wait, webdriver would wait for this amount of time before failing any command. Syntax - driver . manage (). timeouts (). implicitlyWait ( 10 , TimeUnit . SECONDS ); Example - Webdriver is looking to find an element using an xpath and its not able to find it, webdriver waits for 10 seconds before trying to find the element and thus failing if it still can't find the element after 10 seconds Page Load Timeouts - When you set this wait, webdriver would wait for this amount of time to declare page load timeouts Syntax - driver . manage (). timeouts (). pageLoadTimeout ( 100 , SECONDS ); Example - Let's say we ar