Selenium - check if an image is displayed on page

Question

I\'m creating a suite of Selenium tests for an web album application. I would like to test whether an image is actually displayed (it contains valid image data). Is such thi

Answer 1

If you are willing to use the TestPlan frontend to Selenium there a few options. Once you have the URL of the image you can grab this URL and inspect the returned headers. you can also save the data to a file if you'd like to manually inspect it. Or you can write a validator in Java to take that data and check to see if it actually decodes.

If you're willing to try it out then I'll write you a sample script. I can even do a quick image validator function if you'd like.