For any other exception

• Mark test step status as fail and exit the element location loop

If the exception indicates that the element could not be found

• If time elapsed is less than timeout – then try this waterfall approach to locating the element
  • Using relative path
  • Using absolute path
  • Using alternate path captured during automation
  • Locate by Searching on page by text
  • Locate using unique name and path
  • Locate using approximation method
    • Figure out element type from keyword
    • Extract the last tag segment from the XPath to search for
    • Walk up the dom structure trying to locate the element
    • Get element attributes from the outer html that was recorded while automating
    • Search for the last tag segment
    • For every found element – compare the attributes with the recorded outerhtml attributes
    • Repeat till either element located or root is reached
• If element is still not found using all of the above approaches and time has not elapsed – then retry the whole locating elements process from xvii