java - EDITED: My code does not work the catch block during exception handling -

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i have changed code bit, have following function in page object.

public void kenshosearch(string searchterm) throws exception {     driver.findelement(kenshosearchbox).sendkeys(searchterm);     try {         new webdriverwait(driver, 10).until(expectedconditions.visibilityofelementlocated(kenshosearchverify));     }     catch (nosuchelementexception e) {         system.out.println("no results found");     }    } 

when run test keyword not have results, should print out "no results found" in actual throws nosuchelementexception on console along stack trace.

what doing wrong here?

there 2 ways:

1.) can catch nosuchelementexception , throw new assertexception text message.

2.) instead of catching exception should use:

list<webelement> elements = getdriver().findelements(by.xpath("your xpath")); assert.asserttrue(elements.size()>0, "no results found \"search term\" "); 

here try fill list found elements using findelements instead of findelement. if findelements doesn't find webelement doesn't throw exception. can easilly check size of list if element found.