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Banking with Selenium

Two-step login with lockout, account dashboard, add a beneficiary, transfer funds with OTP, manager approval for large transfers, session timeout, a paginated statement and a buggy build.

App under test

🏦 TrustBank

URL
/apps/bank
Customer ID
100200300
Manager ID
900800700
Password
Bank@123
Security answer
greenwood
OTP
246810

Scenarios to automate

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

  1. 1

    Invalid login & lockout

    Beginner

    Wrong password shows attempts left in login-error; the 3rd failure locks the form (reset-lock).

  2. 2

    Two-step authentication

    Beginner

    After step 1, security-question appears; a wrong answer keeps you on step 2.

  3. 3

    Route guard

    Beginner

    Opening /apps/bank/dashboard signed out redirects to the login page.

  4. 4

    Add a payee

    Intermediate

    Validate IFSC pattern and matching account numbers; pasting into the confirm field is blocked.

  5. 5

    Transfer rules

    Intermediate

    Balance, daily limit (₹50,000) and RTGS minimum each raise their own error-* message.

  6. 6

    OTP step

    Intermediate

    Wrong OTP shows otp-error; 246810 completes the transfer after a processing overlay.

  7. 7

    Balance reconciliation

    Advanced

    new-balance on the receipt must equal the old balance minus the amount, and match the dashboard.

  8. 8

    Statement filters & paging

    Advanced

    Combine history-* filters, walk page-next until disabled, export download-statement CSV.

  9. 9

    Session timeout

    Advanced

    Mock the clock 10 minutes ahead: you're logged out and see session-expired.

  10. 10

    Maker and checker

    Advanced

    ₹25,000 or more shows approval-notice and ends on transfer-pending with the balance unchanged; manager 900800700 approves or rejects (10+ character reason) in approvals-table.

  11. 11

    Role-based access

    Intermediate

    The customer sees access-denied on /apps/bank/approvals; the manager sees it on /apps/bank/transfer.

  12. 12

    Bug hunt

    Advanced

    Customer ID 100200399 has 5 seeded defects (daily limit, receipt balance, debit filter, CSV, OTP) — catch each with a test.

  13. 13

    UI vs API

    Advanced

    POST /api/bank/transfer-check returns the same error text as the form; GET /api/bank/rules lists the limits.

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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TrustBankTransferTest.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 ×5 · By.name ×5 · By.xpath ×6 · By.cssSelector ×1 · data-testid ×9
public class TrustBankTransferTest {
  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 transfersMoneyToANewPayee() {
    driver.get(BASE + "/apps/bank");
    type(By.id("customer-id"), "100200300");
    type(By.name("bank-password"), "Bank@123");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Continue']"));
    expectVisible(tid("security-question"));
    type(By.id("security-answer"), "greenwood");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Sign in']"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/bank/dashboard"));
    expectText(tid("customer-name"), "Amir Khan");
    click(tid("action-transfer"));
    wait.until(urlContains("/apps/bank/transfer"));
    select(By.name("from-account"), "savings");

    // Add a beneficiary in the modal
    click(tid("add-payee"));
    type(By.id("payee-name"), "Ravi Kumar");
    type(By.name("payee-account"), "123456789012");
    type(By.id("payee-confirm-account"), "123456789012");
    type(By.name("payee-ifsc"), "TRST0001234");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Save payee']"));
    type(By.id("amount"), "2500");
    click(tid("mode-imps"));
    type(By.name("remarks"), "Rent");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Review transfer']"));
    expectText(tid("review-payee"), "Ravi Kumar");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Confirm']"));
    type(By.cssSelector("[aria-label='One-time password']"), "246810");
    click(By.xpath("//button[normalize-space()='Verify & transfer']"));
    expectVisible(tid("transfer-success"));
    expectText(tid("transfer-amount"), "2,500.00");
    expectText(tid("new-balance"), "1,22,930.50");
  }
}

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