Java · TestNG
Media streaming with Selenium
Pick a profile (Kids hides mature titles), browse scrolling rows, save to My List, and drive a custom player — play/pause, seek, ±10s, speed, volume, subtitles, skip intro — with progress that feeds “Continue watching”.
App under test
▶️ StreamBox
- URL
- /apps/stream
- Login
- viewer@streambox.tv / Stream@123
- Profiles
- Amir · Sara · Kids
- Skip intro
- shown 0:03–0:30
- Plans
- Basic · Standard · Premium
Scenarios to automate
Work top to bottom — each one adds a new technique.
- 1
Account login
BeginnerEmail + password (sb-login-id, sb-password, sb-login) before the profile picker; sb-logout returns to the login.
- 2
Profile gate
BeginnerNo profile → profile-picker; switch-profile returns to it. Kids hides A/UA titles and restricts /watch.
- 3
Unique row locators
IntermediateA title can appear in several rows, so cards are open-<row>-<id> (e.g. open-trending-t3).
- 4
Player state
Intermediateplayer-toggle flips aria-label Play/Pause and data-playing on player; player-time advances.
- 5
Transient button
Advancedskip-intro only exists between 0:03 and 0:30 — wait for it, click, and assert the time jumped to 0:30.
- 6
Range sliders
IntermediateDrive player-seek and player-volume (fill / keyboard / JS); mute toggles the volume to 0.
- 7
Continue watching
AdvancedWatch a bit, go home: row-continue shows the title with a progress bar.
- 8
Reorder a list
IntermediateIn My List, move-up/down-<id> or drag mylist-item to reorder; order persists.
- 9
Plan change modal
Beginnerchoose-<plan> shows an upgrade or downgrade note; confirm-plan updates current-plan.
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 ×1 · By.name ×1 · By.linkText ×2 · By.xpath ×2 · By.cssSelector ×2 · data-testid ×13
public class StreamBoxPlayerTest {
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 watchesATitleAndResumesIt() {
driver.get(BASE + "/apps/stream");
// Sign in first
type(By.id("sb-login-id"), "viewer@streambox.tv");
type(By.name("sb-password"), "Stream@123");
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
click(tid("profile-amir"));
expectText(tid("active-profile"), "Amir");
click(tid("open-trending-t3"));
expectVisible(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='Orbit Nine']"));
click(tid("mylist-t3"));
expectText(tid("mylist-t3"), "In My List");
click(tid("play-t3"));
expectText(tid("watch-title"), "Orbit Nine");
select(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='Playback speed']"), "2");
click(tid("player-toggle"));
// Skip intro appears a moment after playback starts
click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Skip intro']"));
expectText(tid("player-time"), "00:3");
click(tid("player-toggle"));
click(tid("skip-forward-10"));
expectText(tid("player-time"), "00:4");
click(By.linkText("Home"));
expectText(tid("row-continue"), "Orbit Nine");
click(By.linkText("My List"));
expectNthText("mylist-item", 0, "Orbit Nine");
}
}