Automate Adding High School Records with Selenium and Java

When learning Selenium with Java, testing pagination that displays 20 rows per page can become cumbersome if each record must be entered manually; to solve this, the author created a reusable method that automatically adds a complete high‑school record with randomly generated values.

The core method addRecord(WebDriver driver, int num) performs the following steps:

public static void addRecord(WebDriver driver, int num) throws InterruptedException {
    findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "btn-user"); // Open personal center
    findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "btn-uc-record"); // Open high‑school records
    for (int n = 0; n < num; n++) {
        findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "btnAddRecord"); // Click Add Record
        findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "button-toggle-semester_id"); // Choose semester
        findElementByXpathAndClick(driver, ".//*[@id='dropdown-semester_id']/li[" + getRandomInt(5) + "]/a");
        findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "button-toggle-exam_id"); // Choose exam type
        findElementByXpathAndClick(driver, ".//*[@id='dropdown-exam_id']/li[" + getRandomInt(7) + "]/a");
        findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "button-toggle-year"); // Choose year
        findElementByXpathAndClick(driver, ".//*[@id='dropdown-year']/li[" + getRandomInt(5) + "]/a");
        // Fill scores for each subject (e.g., Chinese, Math, English, etc.)
        for (int i = 1; i < 7; i++) {
            findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-score" + i, getRandomInt(100));
            findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-total_score" + i, 100);
        }
        findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-additional_score", getRandomInt(10)); // Policy bonus
        findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-ranking_province", getRandomInt(10000)); // Province rank
        findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-ranking_city", getRandomInt(1000)); // City rank
        findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-ranking_district", getRandomInt(500)); // District rank
        findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-ranking_school", getRandomInt(200)); // School rank
        findElementByIdAndClearSendkeys(driver, "input-ranking_class", getRandomInt(50)); // Class rank
        findElementByIdAndClick(driver, "btnSave"); // Save record
        sleep(1);
        findElementByXpathAndClick(driver, "html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div/button"); // Confirm save
        sleep(1);
        findElementByXpathAndClick(driver, "html/body/div[3]/div[7]/div/button"); // Dismiss success dialog
    }
}

The helper method used to generate random integers is defined as:

public static int getRandomInt(int num) {
    return new Random().nextInt(num) + 1;
}

By invoking addRecord(driver, N), testers can quickly create N realistic high‑school records, each populated with random scores and ranking data, thereby facilitating efficient pagination and data‑driven test scenarios.