Java · TestNG

Entertainment with Selenium

Pick city, date and showtime, select seats on a live seat map, add snacks, apply promos and pay with an OTP under a hold timer.

App under test

🎬 ShowTime

URL: /tickets
Login: not required
Promos: MOVIE50 · FIRSTSHOW
Card OTP: 123456
Seat hold: 5 minutes

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Scenarios to automate

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

1
Date strip
Beginner
Seven date-option chips from today; dates are computed from the browser clock.
2
Filters
Beginner
Combine genre-* toggles, language-filter and movie-search; assert movie-card count.
3
Showtime states
Intermediate
data-status is available / filling / soldout / started — disabled ones can't be clicked.
4
Seat map
Intermediate
Pick seats by data-status, verify selected-seat chips and seat-total per tier.
5
Seat limit
Intermediate
The 9th seat shows seat-limit-error.
6
Snacks & promo codes
Intermediate
MOVIE50 halves tickets (max $10); FIRSTSHOW only works on a first booking.
7
OTP payment
Advanced
Card payments open otp-modal; 123456 passes, anything else shows otp-error.
8
Async UPI approval
Advanced
UPI shows payment-processing for ~3s before the confirmation page.
9
Hold timer
Advanced
Seats are held for 5:00. Mock the clock to hit timer-expired without waiting.
10
Cancel a booking
Advanced
Cancel from My bookings, confirm the dialog, and find it under the Cancelled tab.

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.

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ShowTimeTest.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.testng.Assert.*;
import static org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions.*;

// Each line uses a different By on purpose — the comments name them.
public class ShowTimeTest {
  static final String BASE = "https://www.practiceqaautomation.com";
  WebDriver driver;
  WebDriverWait wait;

  By tid(String id) { return By.cssSelector("[data-testid='" + id + "']"); }
  void type(By by, String text) { wait.until(elementToBeClickable(by)).sendKeys(text); }
  void click(By by) { wait.until(elementToBeClickable(by)).click(); }

  @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 bookTwoSeatsAndPayByCard() {
    driver.get(BASE + "/tickets");
    wait.until(numberOfElementsToBeMoreThan(tid("date-option"), 1)).get(1).click(); // tomorrow
    new Select(wait.until(elementToBeClickable(By.id("city-select")))).selectByVisibleText("London");   // By.id
    wait.until(textToBePresentInElementLocated(tid("movie-list"), "Riverside Screens"));

    WebElement movie = driver.findElement(By.xpath(
        "//li[@data-testid='movie-card'][.//h2[normalize-space()='Nebula Drift']]"));               // XPath: a card by its heading
    movie.findElement(By.cssSelector("[data-testid='showtime']:enabled")).click();

    By freeSeat = By.cssSelector("[data-testid^='seat-'][data-status='available']");                // starts-with + attribute
    click(freeSeat);
    click(freeSeat);                               // first *remaining* free seat
    wait.until(numberOfElementsToBe(tid("selected-seat"), 2));
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Proceed to checkout']"));                           // By.xpath: exact text

    type(By.id("contact-name"), "Grace Hopper");
    type(By.cssSelector("input[type='email']"), "grace@example.com");                               // by input type
    type(By.cssSelector("input[type='tel']"), "5559876543");
    click(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='Add one Large Popcorn']"));                                  // aria-label
    type(By.cssSelector("[placeholder='Promo code']"), "MOVIE50");                                  // placeholder
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Apply']"));
    wait.until(textToBePresentInElementLocated(tid("promo-message"), "applied"));

    type(By.id("ticket-card-number"), "4242424242424242");
    type(By.cssSelector("[placeholder='MM/YY']"), "1230");
    type(By.id("ticket-card-cvv"), "123");
    click(By.xpath("//label[contains(., 'non-transferable')]//input"));                             // via its label
    click(By.xpath("//button[starts-with(normalize-space(), 'Pay $')]"));                           // the text ends with the total

    type(tid("otp-input"), "123456");
    click(tid("otp-submit"));

    String ref = wait.until(visibilityOfElementLocated(tid("booking-ref"))).getText();
    assertTrue(ref.matches("ST[A-Z0-9]{6}"), "Unexpected booking ref: " + ref);
  }
}