Common Exceptions in Selenium Web driver
Exception nameDescription
ElementNotVisibleException This type of Selenium exception occurs when an existing element in DOM
has a feature set as hidden.
ElementNotSelectableException This Selenium exception occurs when an element is presented in the DOM,
but you can be able to select. Therefore, it is not possible to interact.
NoSuchElementException This Exception occurs if an element could not be found.
NoSuchFrameException This Exception occurs if the frame target to be switched to does not exist.
NoAlertPresentException This Exception occurs when you switch to no presented alert.
NoSuchWindowException This Exception occurs if the window target to be switch does not exist.
StaleElementReferenceException This Selenium exception occurs happens when the web element is
detached from the current DOM.
SessionNotFoundException The WebDriver is acting after you quit the browser.
TimeoutException Thrown when there is not enough time for a command to be completed. For
Example, the element searched wasn’t found in the specified time.
WebDriverException This Exception takes place when the WebDriver is acting right after you close the
browser.
ConnectionClosedException This type of Exception takes place when there is a disconnection in the
driver.
ElementClickInterceptedException The command may not be completed as the element receiving the
events is concealing the element which was requested clicked.
ElementNotInteractableException This Selenium exception is thrown when any element is presented
in the DOM. However, it is impossible to interact with such an element.
ErrorInResponseException This happens while interacting with the Firefox extension or the remote
driver server.
[Link] Exception is used as a placeholder in case if the server returns an
error without a stack trace.
ImeActivationFailedException This expectation will occur when IME engine activation has failed.
ImeNotAvailableException It takes place when IME support is unavailable.
InsecureCertificateException Navigation made the user agent to hit a certificate warning. This can cause
by an invalid or expired TLS certificate.
InvalidArgumentException It occurs when an argument does not belong to the expected type.
InvalidCookieDomainException This happens when you try to add a cookie under a different domain
instead of current URL.
InvalidCoordinatesException This type of Exception matches an interacting operation that is not valid.
InvalidElementStateExceptio It occurs when command can’t be finished when the element is invalid.
InvalidSessionIdException This Exception took place when the given session ID is not included in the
list of active sessions. It means the session does not exist or is inactive either.
InvalidSwitchToTargetException This occurs when the frame or window target to be switched does not
exist.
JavascriptException This issue occurs while executing JavaScript given by the user.
JsonException It occurs when you afford to get the session when the session is not created.
NoSuchAttributeException This kind of Exception occurs when the attribute of an element could not
be found.
MoveTargetOutOfBoundsException It takes place if the target provided to the ActionChains move()
methodology is not valid. For Example, out of the document.
NoSuchContextException ContextAware does mobile device testing.
NoSuchCookieException This Exception occurs when no cookie matching with the given pathname
found for all the associated cookies of the currently browsing document.
NotFoundException This Exception is a subclass of WebDriverException. This will occur when an
element on the DOM does not exist.
RemoteDriverServerException This Selenium exception is thrown when the server is not responding
because of the problem that the capabilities described are not proper.
ScreenshotException It is not possible to capture a screen.
SessionNotCreatedException It happens when a new session could not be successfully created.
UnableToSetCookieException This occurs if a driver is unable to set a cookie.
UnexpectedTagNameException Happens if a support class did not get a web element as expected.
UnhandledAlertException This expectation occurs when there is an alert, but WebDriver is not able
to perform Alert operation.
UnexpectedAlertPresentException It occurs when there is the appearance of an unexpected alert.
UnknownMethodException This Exception happens when the requested command matches with a
known URL but and not matching with a methodology for a specific URL.
UnreachableBrowserException This Exception occurs only when the browser is not able to be opened or
crashed because of some reason.
UnsupportedCommandException This occurs when remote WebDriver does n’t send valid
commands as expected.
