setTimeout

Sets the timeouts associated with the current session, timeout durations control such behaviour as timeouts on script injection, document navigation, and element retrieval. For more information and examples, see timeouts guide.

information

It is not recommended to set implicit timeouts as they impact WebdriverIO's behavior and can cause errors in certain commands, e.g. waitForExist with reverse flag.

Usage

browser.setTimeout({ implicit, pageLoad, script })

Parameters

Name	Type	Details
timeouts	Timeouts	Object containing session timeout values
timeouts.implicit optional	Number	Time in milliseconds to retry the element location strategy when finding an element.
timeouts.pageLoad optional	Number	Time in milliseconds to wait for the document to finish loading.
timeouts.script optional	Number	Scripts injected with execute or executeAsync will run until they hit the script timeout duration, which is also given in milliseconds.

Example

setTimeout.js

it('should change timeout duration for session with long code duration', async () => {
    await browser.setTimeout({
        'pageLoad': 10000,
        'script': 60000
    });
    // Execute code which takes a long time
    await browser.executeAsync((done) => {
        console.log('Wake me up before you go!');
        setTimeout(done, 59000);
    });
});