Many websites feature links that download a PDF rather than just opening one. These PDF files’ content might be static (e.g. a restaurant menu or a booklet), or dynamically generated (e.g. a bank statement or a student’s grade report).
This tutorial will show you how to allow PDF downloads and verify the PDF contents in an automated test.
Test Design
Navigate to a web page and download the PDF For my example, I’m downloading a book sample PDF at http://zhimin.com/books/pwta. When you download it, you need to configure where the file is downloading to on your machine.
Verify the downloaded PDF exists Once the file is downloaded from the browser, check if its downloaded successfully on your machine.
Read and verify the PDF’s contents This step is not only for dynamically generated PDFs. It’s good practice to verify your PDF’s contents, even if it’s a static PDF.
Saving the download file to a specific location
First, let’s make sure we save the PDF to an area safe for testing. To test safely and avoid conflicts, download your PDF file to a test folder, and delete the PDF…
