Java · TestNG
HR with Selenium
Clock in with a live timer, apply for leave with weekend-aware day counts and half days, approve as the HR manager, watch the balance drop, browse a paginated directory and download payslips.
App under test
👥 PeopleHub
- URL
- /apps/hr
- Employee
- emp / Hr@123
- HR manager
- hrmanager / Hr@123
- Casual leave
- 8 days
Scenarios to automate
Work top to bottom — each one adds a new technique.
- 1
Role-based pages
BeginnerThe employee sees access-denied on Approvals; the manager can't open Apply leave.
- 2
Clock in/out
Beginnerclock-in starts worked-time ticking; clock-out records last-session.
- 3
Disabled weekends
IntermediateSaturday/Sunday chips in leave-from/leave-to are disabled; leave-to before leave-from is disabled too.
- 4
Working-day maths
IntermediateA Fri → Mon range counts 2 days in leave-days; half-day (same day only) counts 0.5.
- 5
Validation rules
IntermediateExceeding the balance, overlapping an existing request or a short reason each show error-*.
- 6
Approval workflow
AdvancedEmployee submits → manager approves → leave-status Approved and balance-* drops by leave-days.
- 7
Reject with comment
Advancedreject-leave requires a reason; the employee sees it under their request.
- 8
Directory paging
BeginnerFilter by department, page with page-next, open an employee-modal and read employee-email.
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.
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 ×3 · By.linkText ×1 · By.xpath ×7 · data-testid ×8
public class PeopleHubLeaveTest {
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 appliesForLeaveAndGetsItApproved() {
driver.get(BASE + "/apps/hr");
type(By.id("hr-username"), "emp");
type(By.name("hr-password"), "Hr@123");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
expectText(tid("balance-casual"), "8");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Clock in']"));
expectText(tid("attendance-status"), "Clocked in");
click(tid("apply-leave"));
select(By.id("leave-type"), "casual");
// First working day for both ends → a single-day, half-day leave
click(By.cssSelector("[data-testid=\"leave-from\"]:not([disabled])"));
click(By.cssSelector("[data-testid=\"leave-to\"]:not([disabled])"));
check(By.id("half-day"));
expectText(tid("leave-days"), "0.5");
type(By.id("leave-reason"), "Doctor's appointment in the morning");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Submit request']"));
expectVisible(tid("leave-submitted"));
expectText(tid("leave-status"), "Pending");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Log out']"));
// HR manager approves
type(By.id("hr-username"), "hrmanager");
type(By.name("hr-password"), "Hr@123");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
click(By.linkText("Approvals"));
clickNth("approve-leave", 0);
expectText(tid("approval-toast"), "approved");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Log out']"));
// The employee's balance has dropped
type(By.id("hr-username"), "emp");
type(By.name("hr-password"), "Hr@123");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
expectText(tid("balance-casual"), "7.5");
}
}