When writing automated tests we often check presence or absence of element for assertion conditions. This is usually written as - assertTrue("Element is missing. Bug!!!", pageObject. isSomeElementDisplayed()); And when element is not displayed then above mentioned assert statement fails. In the similar manner we can write following assert statement to check for absence of element - assertFalse("Element is present. Bug!!!", pageObject. isSomeElementDisplayed()); Above mentioned assert statement would fail if element is displayed on page. Everything looks ok, is not it. Not really, there is catch. Let's have a closer look at assertFalse statement we used above - assertFalse("Element is present. Bug!!!", pageObject. isSomeElementDisplayed()); This assert statement would also succeed even if webpage results in 404/500 or any other error page, since error page would also be missing the element on which we are p