How to test file uploads in Selenium

Introduction Testing workflows that include a file upload step can be quite difficult to automate. Popular testing tools like Selenium lack the ability to test file uploads out of the box, but luckily there are third-party tools that make automatically testing file uploads possible. In this article, we’ll cover how a third-party tool called AutoIT can be used in combination with Selenium to build end-to-end tests that include file upload functionality.