Wait
Stops for a fixed length of time. Nothing else.
Pause for a fixed time before the next step. Reach for Wait For Element first when you're waiting for something specific — a fixed delay is either too short (and flaky) or longer than it needed to be, and you pay for the device either way.
Reach for it when
- An animation or a toast you have to sit through and cannot name an element for.
- Giving a backend a moment between two calls you control.
Every setting this block has. A field marked only when appears once you have chosen the mode above it — those are alternatives to each other, not extra things to fill in.
- Durationstarts at 1s
How long to pause. This is billed device time like any other step.
Set the time
It is billed device time like every other step — the phone is held, doing nothing.
1sthe phone is held for the whole of it
Prefer waiting for something real
A fixed delay is either too short — and flaky on a slow morning — or longer than it needed to be, and you pay either way. Wait for Element waits exactly as long as it has to.
the same pause, two ways - Wait 3salways 3s — too long, or not enough
- Wait for Elementas long as it takes, no longer
- Nothing. It only delays what comes next.
- A flaky test fixed by raising a Wait is not fixed, it is postponed. Find the element it was actually waiting for.