使用Mike Kwan提供的解决方案可能会对整体测试性能产生影响，因为隐式等待将在所有FindElement调用中使用。

很多时候，您希望FindElement在一个元素不存在时立即失败(您正在测试一个畸形的页面、缺失的元素等)。使用隐式等待，这些操作将在抛出异常之前等待整个超时到期。默认的隐式等待设置为0秒。

我写了一个小扩展方法到IWebDriver，它添加了一个超时(秒)参数FindElement()方法。这是不言而喻的:

public static class WebDriverExtensions
{
    public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSeconds)
    {
        if (timeoutInSeconds > 0)
        {
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));
            return wait.Until(drv => drv.FindElement(by));
        }
        return driver.FindElement(by);
    }
}

我没有缓存WebDriverWait对象，因为它的创建非常便宜，这个扩展可以同时用于不同的WebDriver对象，我只在最终需要的时候做优化。

用法很简单:

var driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost/mypage");
var btn = driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#login_button"));
btn.Click();
var employeeLabel = driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#VCC_VSL"), 10);
Assert.AreEqual("Employee", employeeLabel.Text);
driver.Close();

// Wait up to 5 seconds with no minimum for a UI element to be found
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_pagedriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
IWebElement title = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
{
    return d.FindElement(By.ClassName("MainContentHeader"));
});

使用c#扩展方法:我们可以解决等待直到元素可见的问题。 一个特定元素的最大reties是100。

public static bool WaitForElementToBeVisible(IWebDriver browser, By by)
        {
            int attemptToFindElement = 0;
            bool elementFound = false;
            IWebElement elementIdentifier = null;
            do
            {
                attemptToFindElement++;
                try
                {
                    elementIdentifier = browser.FindWebElement(by);
                    elementFound = (elementIdentifier.Displayed && elementIdentifier.Enabled) ? true : false;
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                    elementFound = false;
                }

            }
            while (elementFound == false && attemptToFindElement < 100);

            return elementFound;
        }

下面是Loudenvier解决方案的一个变体，它也适用于获得多个元素:

public static class WebDriverExtensions
{
    public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSeconds)
    {
        if (timeoutInSeconds > 0)
        {
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));
            return wait.Until(drv => drv.FindElement(by));
        }
        return driver.FindElement(by);
    }

    public static ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> FindElements(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSeconds)
    {
        if (timeoutInSeconds > 0)
        {
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));
            return wait.Until(drv => (drv.FindElements(by).Count > 0) ? drv.FindElements(by) : null);
        }
        return driver.FindElements(by);
    }
}

受Loudenvier的解决方案的启发，这里有一个扩展方法，它适用于所有ISearchContext对象，而不仅仅是IWebDriver，后者是前者的专门化。此方法还支持等待，直到元素显示出来。

static class WebDriverExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Find an element, waiting until a timeout is reached if necessary.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The search context.</param>
    /// <param name="by">Method to find elements.</param>
    /// <param name="timeout">How many seconds to wait.</param>
    /// <param name="displayed">Require the element to be displayed?</param>
    /// <returns>The found element.</returns>
    public static IWebElement FindElement(this ISearchContext context, By by, uint timeout, bool displayed=false)
    {
        var wait = new DefaultWait<ISearchContext>(context);
        wait.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeout);
        wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes(typeof(NoSuchElementException));
        return wait.Until(ctx => {
            var elem = ctx.FindElement(by);
            if (displayed && !elem.Displayed)
                return null;

            return elem;
        });
    }
}

使用示例:

var driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost");
var main = driver.FindElement(By.Id("main"));
var btn = main.FindElement(By.Id("button"));
btn.Click();
var dialog = main.FindElement(By.Id("dialog"), 5, displayed: true);
Assert.AreEqual("My Dialog", dialog.Text);
driver.Close();

public bool doesWebElementExist(string linkexist)
{
     try
     {
        driver.FindElement(By.XPath(linkexist));
        return true;
     }
     catch (NoSuchElementException e)
     {
        return false;
     }
}