28 September 2016

Selenium - How to Restore Cookies in New Browser Window

testing

Suppose we have to test for the following scenario:

1. Go to login page and login to the application
2. Close the browser
3. Open the browser and go to the login page - the user should not see the login form and should be already logged in.

On the first login, cookies are stored in the browser. In WebDriver, when the browser window is closed, all session data and cookies are deleted, so the testing of the above scenario becomes impossible.

Luckily, WebDriver has functionality to read the cookies from the browser before closing it and then restore the cookies in the new browser window.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Cookie;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;

import java.util.Set;

public class CookieTest {
    WebDriver driver;

    @Test
    public void login_state_should_be_restored() {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.get("http://www.example.com/login");
        driver.findElement(By.id("username")).sendKeys("admin");
        driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("12345");
        driver.findElement(By.id("login")).click();

        Assert.assertTrue(
                driver.findElement(By.id("welcome")).isDisplayed());

        //Before closing the browser, read the cookies
        Set allCookies = driver.manage().getCookies();

        driver.close();

        //open a new browser window
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        //restore all cookies from previous session
        for(Cookie cookie : allCookies) {
            driver.manage().addCookie(cookie);
        }

        driver.get("http://www.example.com/login");

//Login page should not be disaplyed
        Assert.assertTrue(
                driver.findElement(By.id("welcome")).isDisplayed());

        driver.close();
    }
}

28 September 2016