Can I have Parallel Object Recognition in Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am using Selenium Webdriver, and I want to verify that everything has loaded in a browser (Chrome as it happens). The browser main window will have 10 or more objects loading inside it (each within their own iframe). I want to ascertain as quickly as possible that each object has loaded, then carry on with the rest of the test. Is it possible to use the C# Parallel.foreach construct to speed things up here, or do I have to check in series.

Parallel.ForEach(loop, f=>
{
    try
    {
         _customObject.MethodCheckingForAnIWebElement(f, AnArrayWithSomeInfo[f]);
    }
    catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine("Throw:" + f + ":" + e.Message); }
});

The code snippet above is throwing f-1 Element is not attached to the page object errors, which is making me think that I just cannot do this approach. To be clear, each call, I will do something like

_webDriver.SwitchTo().Frame(aFrame)
_webDriver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(some.property));

Apologies if I have missed some obvious documentation on this!

Answer seems to be no. :) – SlightlyKosumi Oct 13 '16 at 12:18 — SlightlyKosumi, Oct 13 '16 at 12:18

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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The answer appears to be as I suspected, in the threading model we have for Selenium WebDriver we can't process in parallel. Hence the consistent attachment error. See also Can Selenium use multi threading in one browser?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Oct 27 '16 at 07:31

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Please use the edit link on your question to add additional information. The Post Answer button should be used only for complete answers to the question. - [From Review](/review/low-quality-posts/14112736) – VDWWD Oct 27 '16 at 13:56
Thank you for your review. How do you think my answer could be more complete? – SlightlyKosumi Oct 27 '16 at 14:06
The answer is rather short and without code. It could have been an update to your Question. – VDWWD Oct 27 '16 at 14:09
What code could be added when there is no code which can do the job in question? – SlightlyKosumi Oct 27 '16 at 14:09
I added a link to another Multi thread question on Selenium as it seems to support my answer. – SlightlyKosumi Oct 27 '16 at 14:15

Can I have Parallel Object Recognition in Selenium Webdriver

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