Selenium Read QRCode

This project shows how to read the QRCode content from a webapp using Selenium and ZXing.

Technologies in use

• Java as the programming language
• Selenium as the web test automation tool
• Zxing as the library to decode the QRCode content
• AssertJ as the assertion library
• JUnit 5 as the test tool to support the test automation script
• WebDriverManager as the browser binary management library

How to run this project

Preconditions

• Java JDK >=11
• Google Chrome installed

Steps

Running using the command line

1. Go do the project directory and run mvn verify -Dmaven.test.skip=true
2. Run mvn test to run the test

Running in your IDE

1. Open this project in your preferred IDE
2. Open the QRCodeTest class placed in src/test/java
3. Run the test

Expected result

You can expect a successful execution. The test will read the QRCode content and assert by its expectation.

What does the tests do

• Open the browser in a page that has a QRCode
• In the test that reads the image src as path readQRCodeFromURL
  • Get the image path and transform it in a BufferedImage
• In the test that reads the image src as Base64 readQRCodeFromBase64
  • Get the Base64 content and transform it in a BufferedImage
• Process the image and decode it using ZXing
• Return the QRCode content
• Assert the QRCode content