Get a new iPhone with help from Selenium

I’ve been looking forward to the iPhone 4 ever since the 3GS was released, as I was in contract at the time and decided to wait another year for whatever Apple decided to release next. Due to unexpected (but very cool) circumstances, I was out of the country on the day Apple released the iPhone 4 and so was unable to queue up for one of the devices, and now due to the demand it’s very difficult to get hold of one. Since getting back to the UK I have been visiting my two nearest O2 stores to check if they have had a delivery, and today they pointed me towards their online stock checker…

So rather than check this manually, I decided to write a couple of small Selenium 2 scripts to check the stock levels at my ‘local’ stores, and to find out all stores that do have the devices. These examples use Java with TestNG (for dataproviders), and Selenium 2.

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