At the core of explicit waits is the incredibly powerful fluent wait API. All the WebDriverWait objects extend FluentWait. So, why would we want to use FluentWait?
Well, we get more granular control over the Wait object, and we can easily specify specific exceptions to ignore. Let's have a look at an example:
Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver)
.withTimeout(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.pollingEvery(500, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class)
.withMessage("The message you will see in if a TimeoutException is thrown");As you can see in the preceding code, we created a wait object with a 15-second timeout that polls every five hundred milliseconds to check whether a condition is met. We have decided that while waiting for our condition to become true, we want to ignore any instances of NoSuchElementException. So, we have specified it in the ignoring method. We also want...