Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

So, what's next?

Writing the automated checks falls to you. You open up your development IDE and start writing Selenium code. Your plan is to replicate the actions that you would perform manually in an automated script:

1. You load the page with the download link
2. You find the <a> element on the page
3. You click on it

Wait! It's a trap. As soon as you click on the download link, your test stops because Selenium cannot interact with an OS-level dialog box.

You go and have a look at the Selenium mailing lists and see lots of posts talking about your problem. Most of them seem to be advocating the use of another tool called AutoIT and there is some talk about using a Java Robot class. Almost everything you read talks about finding a way to interact ...