Selenium Grid - Do something on test failure - selenium

Question

I am relatively new to Selenium Grid and I'm having issues with test stability. For some reason, when I'm running my tests via the grid and RemoteWebDriver, my tests intermittently get stuck on the IEDriverServer opening page that says,
"This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server."
This causes the remainder of the tests that get put against that machine to fail, which is extremely frustrating because 99 times out of 100 those same tests will pass on a rerun.
I am wanting to do something like the following but can't seem to implement it. Here is the pseudo code:
if(initialWebDriverPageTextIsOnPage > 30seconds)
{
driver.Close();
driver.Dispose();
}
I feel like this could fit in my basetest as a listener that consistently polls the page but I can't seem to figure out how to implement this.
Any advice, or suggestions as to what the root cause is would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

As you want to wait for your intended url to wait for a definite period, you can induce ExplicitWait i.e WebDriverWait with proper ExpectedConditions clause as follows :
WebDriverWait wait_4_link = new WebDriverWait(driver, new TimeSpan(0,0,10));
if(wait_4_link.Until(ExpectedConditions.UrlToBe("your_intended_url")))
{
//Your Test Code
}
else
{
driver.quit();
}
As an alternative instead of the ExpectedConditions clause as UrlToBe you can also use either of the following clauses :
wait_4_link.until(ExpectedConditions.UrlContains("your_url_fraction"));
wait_4_link.until(ExpectedConditions.UrlMatches("regex_pattern_of_url"));