Web Test Automation Workbook #47: Print Invoice (file download)

Test File Download and verify in Selenium WebDriver

This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Workbook” series (the complete training course will be on my Substack Newsletter), a set of bite-size exercises. (many coaching sessions are still not converted in writing yet, I publish the later ones for experienced automated testers)

Table of Contents:
· Learning Objectives
· Test Case #47
· Test design
· Tasks
  ∘ Task 1. Verify a file exists
  ∘ Task 2. To Verify a newly generated file safely
  ∘ Task 3. Customize Chrome’s download path
  ∘ Task 4. Ruby’s instance variables and the scope
· Full Test Script

Learning Objectives

• Design reliable automated tests that are user aware.
• Customize the Chrome browser to save downloaded files into a specified folder
• Verify File Exists
• Awareness of execution side effects: the file already exists
• Review: "#{variable}/..."

Test Case #47

Test design

• Login (business): physio@biz.com (password: test01 )
• Create an invoice (session #46)