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Stock trading with Selenium

A watchlist with prices that tick every second, market and limit orders with buying-power, holdings and price-band checks, a confirm step, and a portfolio with live P&L. Simulated — no real money.

App under test

📊 TradeX

URL
/apps/trading
Login
TX1001 / Trade@123
Trading PIN
2468
Starting cash
₹5,00,000
Brokerage
₹20 / order
Limit band
±10% of LTP

Scenarios to automate

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

  1. 1

    Login + trading PIN

    Beginner

    Client ID + password (tx-login-id, tx-password, tx-login), then a 4-digit PIN (tx-code, tx-verify). Wrong details show attempts left in tx-login-error; 3 failures lock the form (tx-unlock).

  2. 2

    Asserting live data

    Intermediate

    price-* changes every second — assert format (₹ + 2 decimals) or that it changed, never an exact value.

  3. 3

    Search & watchlist

    Beginner

    symbol-search → add-<SYM> adds a watch-row; remove-<SYM> deletes it.

  4. 4

    Quantity validation

    Beginner

    0, decimals or text in order-qty show error-order-qty.

  5. 5

    Buying power

    Intermediate

    Order more than cash allows; the error tells you the affordable quantity.

  6. 6

    Limit band

    Intermediate

    A limit price more than 10% away from LTP is rejected in error-limit-price.

  7. 7

    Buy then sell

    Advanced

    Buy at market, then sell part of the holding; holding-qty-<SYM> and cash reconcile (with ₹20 brokerage).

  8. 8

    Open limit orders

    Advanced

    Place a limit order near LTP; it may fill on its own — poll order-status or cancel-<id> it.

  9. 9

    Sell more than held

    Beginner

    side-sell with a quantity above your holding shows “You only hold N share(s)”.

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
TradeXOrderTest.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 ×3 · By.name ×1 · By.linkText ×3 · By.xpath ×6 · By.cssSelector ×1 · data-testid ×12
public class TradeXOrderTest {
  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 buysAndPartlySellsAStock() {
    driver.get(BASE + "/apps/trading");

    // Sign in first
    type(By.id("tx-login-id"), "TX1001");
    type(By.name("tx-password"), "Trade@123");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Continue']"));
    type(tid("tx-code"), "2468");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Verify & continue']"));
    expectVisible(tid("price-INFY"));
    type(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='Search stocks']"), "tata m");
    click(tid("add-TATAMOTORS"));
    expectVisible(tid("price-TATAMOTORS"));
    click(tid("trade-INFY"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/trading/trade/INFY"));
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Buy']"));
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='MarketFill now at LTP']"));
    type(By.id("order-qty"), "10");
    click(tid("review-order"));
    expectText(tid("review-qty"), "10");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Confirm']"));
    expectText(tid("order-result"), "Filled");
    click(By.linkText("Portfolio"));
    expectText(tid("holding-qty-INFY"), "10");

    // Sell part of the position
    click(By.linkText("Sell"));
    type(By.id("order-qty"), "4");
    click(tid("review-order"));
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Confirm']"));
    expectText(tid("order-result"), "Sold 4 INFY");
    click(By.linkText("Portfolio"));
    expectText(tid("holding-qty-INFY"), "6");
  }
}

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