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Advertising with Selenium

A 5-step campaign wizard — objective, audience with location autocomplete, budget & bidding, creative with character counters and a live preview — then launch and pause/resume.

App under test

📣 AdPulse

URL
/apps/ads
Login
not required
Min budget
$5/day · $100 lifetime
Review time
~3 seconds

Scenarios to automate

Work top to bottom — each one adds a new technique.

  1. 1

    Step validation

    Beginner

    wizard-next on an empty step shows step-errors and error-* for that step only.

  2. 2

    Autocomplete chips

    Intermediate

    Type in location-input, pick location-option-*, then remove a chip with remove-location-*.

  3. 3

    Dependent fields

    Intermediate

    bid-strategy “Cost cap” reveals cost-cap-amount; unticking run-continuously reveals run-duration.

  4. 4

    Character counters

    Intermediate

    headline-count tracks 0/40 and input stops at 40 characters (maxlength).

  5. 5

    Live preview

    Intermediate

    preview-headline and preview-cta mirror the creative fields as you type.

  6. 6

    Edit from review

    Advanced

    edit-step-2 jumps back to Audience; values are preserved when returning to Review.

  7. 7

    Async status

    Advanced

    A launched campaign shows “In review”, then flips to “Active” ~3s later.

  8. 8

    Toggle switches

    Beginner

    Flip toggle-<id> (role=switch) and assert aria-checked and the status badge.

Sample Selenium suite

A working starting point that finds elements every way Selenium can — by role, label, text, id, name, CSS, XPath and data-testid — so you practice them all. Pick your language, switch to data-testid only to compare, or try your own in the Locator Playground.

Language
AdPulseCampaignTest.java
import org.testng.annotations.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import java.util.Map;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.*;
import java.time.Duration;
import static org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions.*;

// Locators in this suite: By.id ×6 · By.name ×4 · By.xpath ×1 · By.cssSelector ×1 · data-testid ×14
public class AdPulseCampaignTest {
  static final String BASE = "https://www.practiceqaautomation.com";
  WebDriver driver;
  WebDriverWait wait;

  // Small helpers: every action takes a By and waits for its element first (no Thread.sleep).
  By tid(String id) { return By.cssSelector("[data-testid='" + id + "']"); }
  WebElement ready(By by) { return centre(wait.until(elementToBeClickable(by))); }
  void click(By by) { ready(by).click(); }
  WebElement nth(String id, int n) { return centre(wait.until(numberOfElementsToBeMoreThan(tid(id), n)).get(n)); }
  void clickNth(String id, int n) { nth(id, n).click(); }
  // Scroll to the middle of the screen first: Selenium only scrolls an element to the edge,
  // where a sticky header or a fixed bottom bar can cover it (ElementClickInterceptedException).
  WebElement centre(WebElement e) {
    ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView({block: 'center', inline: 'nearest'})", e);
    return e;
  }
  void type(By by, String text) { ready(by).sendKeys(text); }
  void select(By by, String value) { new Select(ready(by)).selectByValue(value); }
  void check(By by) { WebElement e = ready(by); if (!e.isSelected()) e.click(); }
  void expectText(By by, String text) { wait.until(textToBePresentInElementLocated(by, text)); }
  void expectVisible(By by) { wait.until(visibilityOfElementLocated(by)); }
  void expectNthText(String id, int n, String text) {
    wait.until(d -> d.findElements(tid(id)).size() > n && d.findElements(tid(id)).get(n).getText().contains(text));
  }

  @BeforeMethod
  public void setUp() {
    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    // Turn off Chrome's "Save password?" and "password found in a data breach" pop-ups: after a
    // login they take the keyboard and mouse away from the page, so later typing and clicks are lost.
    options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", Map.of(
        "credentials_enable_service", false,
        "profile.password_manager_enabled", false,
        "profile.password_manager_leak_detection", false));
    driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
    wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10));
  }

  @AfterMethod(alwaysRun = true)
  public void tearDown() { driver.quit(); }

  @Test
  public void createsAndLaunchesACampaign() {
    driver.get(BASE + "/apps/ads");
    click(tid("create-campaign"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/ads/new"));
    click(tid("objective-traffic"));
    type(By.id("campaign-name"), "Diwali Sale");
    click(tid("wizard-next"));

    // Audience
    select(By.name("age-min"), "25");
    select(By.id("age-max"), "45");
    type(By.name("location-input"), "Mum");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Mumbai, India']"));
    check(By.id("interest-shopping"));
    expectText(tid("audience-reach"), "people");
    click(tid("wizard-next"));

    // Budget
    click(tid("budget-type-daily"));
    type(By.name("budget-amount"), "50");
    click(tid("wizard-next"));

    // Creative with live preview
    type(By.id("ad-headline"), "Big Diwali Sale up to 50% off");
    type(By.id("ad-description"), "Lights, gifts and more at festive prices.");
    type(By.cssSelector("[placeholder='https://']"), "https://example.com/diwali");
    select(By.name("ad-cta"), "shop-now");
    expectText(tid("preview-headline"), "Big Diwali Sale");
    expectText(tid("preview-cta"), "Shop now");
    click(tid("wizard-next"));
    expectText(tid("review-name"), "Diwali Sale");
    check(By.id("accept-ad-policy"));
    click(tid("launch-campaign"));
    expectVisible(tid("campaign-launched"));
    expectText(tid("campaigns-table"), "Diwali Sale");
  }
}

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