C# Expected Conditions are Deprecated. So what?

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My recent Selenium automation projects are built in C#.

It was a while since I did any coding in this language but, since C# was created from Java, I did not expect more than a few days of adjusting to the Selenium C# binding.

One of the surprises I had was the fact that the C# ExpectedConditions class is deprecated.

How was I supposed to do any synchronization between the site and the tests without it?

It turned out that synchronization was still achievable in just a few lines of code.

I am going to show you a quick Selenium solution without any synchronization so it is easy to understand where the synchronization comes into play.

The test class has 2 tests only, both about searching for a keyword:

using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using System;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
namespace UnitTestPackage {
 
  public class TestClass {
    private ChromeDriver driver;
    private readonly String homeUrl = “http://www.vpl.ca";
    private readonly String resultsUrl = “vpl.bibliocommons.com”;
    private readonly String keyword =…