File Downloads With Selenium — Mission Impossible? When starting to automate acceptance tests that include a web UI, you probably will hit a wall quite quickly: how to verify a document that is available for download against some criteria?
If you tried that one you know: doing file downloads automatically seems to be a mission impossible … or … is it really? Frequent weapon of choice for testing web UIs is Selenium. In the fight “Selenium vs. Download” there are actually two problems, which need to be solved: Selenium Documentation — Selenium Documentation. Home - Selenium. Selenium - Handle Dialogs.