Java · JUnit 5

Ticket booking with Selenium

Automate a movie booking — dates, filters, a seat map, snacks, promos, OTP payment and a seat-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 written against this app's real data-testids.

ShowTimeTest.java

import org.junit.jupiter.api.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.*;
import java.time.Duration;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
import static org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions.*;

class ShowTimeTest {
  static final String BASE = "http://localhost:3000";
  WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
  WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10));

  By tid(String id) { return By.cssSelector("[data-testid='" + id + "']"); }
  void type(String id, String text) { driver.findElement(tid(id)).sendKeys(text); }

  @AfterEach
  void tearDown() { driver.quit(); }

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

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

    By freeSeat = By.cssSelector("[data-testid^='seat-'][data-status='available']");
    wait.until(elementToBeClickable(freeSeat)).click();
    driver.findElement(freeSeat).click();          // first *remaining* free seat
    wait.until(numberOfElementsToBe(tid("selected-seat"), 2));
    driver.findElement(tid("proceed-button")).click();

    wait.until(elementToBeClickable(tid("contact-name"))).sendKeys("Grace Hopper");
    type("contact-email", "grace@example.com");
    type("contact-phone", "5559876543");
    driver.findElement(tid("snack-popcorn-inc")).click();
    type("promo-input", "MOVIE50");
    driver.findElement(tid("apply-promo")).click();
    wait.until(textToBePresentInElementLocated(tid("promo-message"), "applied"));

    type("card-number", "4242424242424242");
    type("card-expiry", "1230");
    type("card-cvv", "123");
    driver.findElement(tid("accept-terms")).click();
    driver.findElement(tid("pay-button")).click();

    wait.until(visibilityOfElementLocated(tid("otp-input"))).sendKeys("123456");
    driver.findElement(tid("otp-submit")).click();

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