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Government services with Selenium

A six-section application with autosaved drafts you can resume, split date-of-birth dropdowns, conditional fields, “same as present address”, document uploads, a verification code, appointment booking and ARN tracking.

App under test

🏛️ GovServe

URL
/apps/gov
Login
citizen@govserve.in / Gov@123
Login OTP
5821
Form verification code
7439
Uploads
PDF/JPG ≤ 2 MB · photo JPG ≤ 1 MB
Offices
weekdays only

Scenarios to automate

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

  1. 1

    Citizen login + OTP

    Beginner

    Email + password, then OTP 5821. Opening a deep link such as /apps/gov/status signed out shows the login in place and returns to that page after sign-in.

  2. 2

    Section validation

    Beginner

    section-next on an empty section shows section-errors plus an error-* per field.

  3. 3

    Date dropdowns

    Intermediate

    31 Feb or a future date in dob-day/month/year shows error-dob.

  4. 4

    Conditional field

    Beginner

    marital-status “Married” reveals spouse-name, which becomes required.

  5. 5

    Copy address

    Intermediate

    same-address copies present into permanent fields and disables that fieldset.

  6. 6

    Upload validation

    Intermediate

    Upload a .txt or >2 MB file to address-proof-file to see the type/size error; valid files show *-name.

  7. 7

    Autosave & resume

    Advanced

    draft-status goes “Saving draft…” → “✓ Draft saved”; save-exit, then resume-<id> restores the section and values.

  8. 8

    Review & edit

    Intermediate

    On the last step, edit-section-N jumps back; review-* rows reflect your answers.

  9. 9

    Appointment & tracking

    Advanced

    Pick an office, a weekday and a free appointment-slot; then track the ARN on the status page.

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
GovServeApplicationTest.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 ×11 · By.name ×10 · By.xpath ×5 · By.cssSelector ×2 · data-testid ×16
public class GovServeApplicationTest {
  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));
  }
  // File inputs take an absolute path via sendKeys (fixtures live in src/test/resources).
  void upload(By by, String file) {
    driver.findElement(by).sendKeys(new java.io.File("src/test/resources/" + file).getAbsolutePath());
  }

  @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 appliesForAPassportAndBooksAnAppointment() {
    driver.get(BASE + "/apps/gov");

    // Sign in first
    type(By.id("gs-login-id"), "citizen@govserve.in");
    type(By.name("gs-password"), "Gov@123");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Continue']"));
    type(tid("gs-code"), "5821");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Verify & continue']"));
    click(tid("start-application"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/gov/apply/"));

    // 1. Personal
    type(By.id("given-name"), "Amir");
    type(By.name("surname"), "Khan");
    select(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='Day']"), "15");
    select(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='Month']"), "8");
    select(By.id("dob-year"), "1990");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Male']"));
    type(By.name("birth-place"), "Pune");
    select(tid("marital-status"), "married");
    type(By.id("spouse-name"), "Sara Khan");
    click(tid("section-next"));

    // 2. Address
    type(By.name("house"), "12B");
    type(By.id("street"), "Palm Residency, Baner");
    type(By.name("city"), "Pune");
    select(tid("state"), "Maharashtra");
    type(By.id("pincode"), "411045");
    check(tid("same-address"));
    click(tid("section-next"));

    // 3. Family, 4. Emergency contact
    type(By.name("father-name"), "Imran Khan");
    type(By.id("mother-name"), "Farah Khan");
    click(tid("section-next"));
    type(By.name("emergency-name"), "Sara Khan");
    type(By.id("emergency-phone"), "9812345678");
    select(By.name("emergency-relation"), "spouse");
    click(tid("section-next"));

    // 5. Documents
    select(By.id("proof-type"), "aadhaar");
    upload(By.id("address-proof-file"), "address-proof.pdf");
    upload(tid("photo-file"), "photo.jpg");
    expectText(tid("photo-file-name"), "photo.jpg");
    click(tid("section-next"));

    // 6. Review & submit
    expectText(tid("review-name"), "Amir Khan");
    check(By.id("declaration"));
    type(By.name("captcha-input"), "7439");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Submit application']"));
    expectText(tid("arn"), "ARN-26");
    select(By.name("office"), "psk-pune");
    click(By.cssSelector("[data-testid=\"appointment-day\"]:not([disabled])"));
    click(By.cssSelector("[data-testid=\"appointment-slot\"][data-available=\"true\"]"));
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Confirm appointment']"));
    expectVisible(tid("appointment-receipt"));
    expectText(tid("receipt-name"), "Amir Khan");
  }
}

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