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ERP with Selenium

A sortable, paginated inventory grid, purchase orders with dynamic line items and GST totals, and a two-role approval workflow with an audit trail.

App under test

🏭 CoreERP

URL
/apps/erp
Buyer
buyer / Erp@123
Manager
manager / Erp@123
Tax
GST 18%

Scenarios to automate

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

  1. 1

    Role-based access

    Beginner

    As buyer, open /apps/erp/approvals and assert access-denied; the manager sees the queue.

  2. 2

    Grid sorting

    Intermediate

    Click sort-qty twice and verify qty-* values are descending; aria-sort reflects the state.

  3. 3

    Filters & pagination

    Intermediate

    Combine inventory-search, warehouse-filter, low-stock-only and page-size; walk page-next.

  4. 4

    Reorder shortcut

    Intermediate

    reorder-<sku> opens a new PO with that item pre-filled on line 0.

  5. 5

    Dynamic line items

    Advanced

    Add 3 lines, remove the middle one, and check the remaining line-*-total and po-total.

  6. 6

    PO validation

    Intermediate

    Submitting with no vendor, no lines, qty 0 or duplicate items shows po-errors and error-*.

  7. 7

    Two-user workflow

    Advanced

    Buyer submits → logout → manager approves; po-status and po-timeline update.

  8. 8

    Rejection with comment

    Advanced

    reject-po requires a 10+ char reject-comment; it appears as po-comment in the timeline.

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
CoreErpApprovalTest.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 ×4 · By.name ×3 · By.linkText ×2 · By.xpath ×5 · data-testid ×7
public class CoreErpApprovalTest {
  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 raisesAndApprovesAPurchaseOrder() {
    driver.get(BASE + "/apps/erp");

    // Buyer raises the purchase order
    type(By.id("erp-username"), "buyer");
    type(By.name("erp-password"), "Erp@123");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/erp/dashboard"));
    click(By.linkText("Purchase orders"));
    click(tid("new-po"));
    select(By.id("po-vendor"), "v2");
    click(tid("po-delivery-14"));
    click(tid("add-line"));
    select(By.name("line-0-item"), "SKU-1004");
    type(By.id("line-0-qty"), "25");
    expectText(tid("line-0-total"), "8,400.00");
    expectText(tid("po-total"), "9,912.00");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Submit for approval']"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/erp/po/"));
    expectText(tid("po-status"), "Pending approval");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Log out']"));

    // Manager approves it
    type(By.id("erp-username"), "manager");
    type(By.name("erp-password"), "Erp@123");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/erp/dashboard"));
    click(By.linkText("Approvals"));
    clickNth("approval-review", 0);
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Approve']"));
    expectText(tid("po-status"), "Approved");
  }
}

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