When waiting for element to exist in code, Test Studio doesn't respect the timeout set in the coded step. Instead it uses the global "Wait on elements timeout" from the Quick Execution options. For example, if we have the following code: Pages.ASPNETComboBoxDemo.ListItem.Wait.ForExists(10000); and "Wait on elements timeout" is set to 30000, Test Studio will wait for 30 seconds insted of 10.