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I've got a question about using time.sleep() to test Angular2 app. I do know that there is something like Protractor (and Pytractor) and you can use it when writing functional tests in Selenium. You can also use Explicit Waits. I found this info e.g. here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29503381/6401796 But what about using time import? Is that even correct to write tests like that for Angular2 apps? My code:

import time
def open_login_page(self):
    wd = self.wd
    wd.get(localhost)
    time.sleep(10)

I'm waiting here for all elements to show up. Thank you for considering my request.

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wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "someID")))

Explicit wait is waiting for the condition to met up to the specified time, 10 seconds in this example. If the element is visible after 2 seconds the script will continue after 2 seconds of waiting.

When using

time.sleep(10)

The script will wait for 10 seconds no matter what, unnecessary 8 seconds delay.

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