Expected condition failed: waiting for visibility of element located by By.xpath

Question

I am trying to click on Sign in link on site alibaba.com

This is my test case:

public class TestCase {

    public static void main(String[] args) th         


        

Answer 1

Please try this following:

package PageObjects;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class SignIn {

    private static WebElement element = null;
    public static WebElement SignIn_click(WebDriver driver) throws InterruptedException {
    element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("id('J_SC_header')/header/div[2]//span[1]/a[@data-val='ma_signin']"));

    while (!isDisplayed(element)) 
    {
        Thread.sleep(3000);
        System.out.println("Element is not visible yet");
    }
    return element;

    }
    public static boolean isDisplayed(WebElement element) {
        try {
            if(element.isDisplayed())
                return element.isDisplayed();
            }catch (NoSuchElementException ex) {
            return false;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 2

Here is the Answer to your Question:

The xpath you have constructed //a[@data-val='ma_signin'] is not unique. The xpath matches with 3 nodes. If you want to click on Sign In button you can consider using this unique xpath:

//div[@id='J_SC_header']//div[@class='sc-hd-row sc-hd-main']//a[@rel='nofollow'][@data-val='ma_signin']

Answer 3

public static void waitVisibilityOfElementLocated(WebDriver driver, String locator) {
        String key = "";
        WebElement element = null;
        try {
            key = Utility.fetchLocatorKey(locator);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception in getText method, " + e.getMessage());
        }

        if (key.endsWith("id")) {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);
            element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id(locator)));
        } else if (key.endsWith("cssselector")) {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);
            element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(locator)));
        } else if (key.endsWith("linktext")) {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);
            element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText(locator)));
        } else if (key.endsWith("xpath")) {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);
            element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath(locator)));
        }

    }