My Testing Thoughts

At times, we need to visit a page in our application that automatically starts downloading the file which is as per the feature of that page. But we're navigating to this page (A) only to further navigate to the other page (B) by clicking on some link given on this page (A) which redirect us to the page (B) but at the same time, we don't want to download the file on visiting this page (A) as it's not required every time while running our Selenium automation script. Did you know there is a preference option "download_restrictions" that can help us achieve this? Let say A is this: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.41/selenium-java-2.41.0.zip HashMap<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>(); prefs.put("download_restrictions", 3); ChromeOptions opt = new ChromeOptions(); opt.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs); WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup(); driver = new ChromeDriver(opt);