diff --git a/apps/showcase/pom.xml b/apps/showcase/pom.xml
index 2745be15e..d715790cd 100644
--- a/apps/showcase/pom.xml
+++ b/apps/showcase/pom.xml
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
 
+       <dependency>
+           <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+           <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
+           <scope>test</scope>
+       </dependency>
+
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.htmlunit</groupId>
            <artifactId>htmlunit</artifactId>
@@ -231,7 +237,7 @@
                     <httpConnector>
                         <port>8090</port>
                     </httpConnector>
-                    <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
+                    <scan>10</scan>
                     <webAppSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/</webAppSourceDirectory>
                     <webApp>
                       <extraClasspath>
diff --git a/apps/showcase/src/test/java/it/org/apache/struts2/showcase/FileUploadTest.java b/apps/showcase/src/test/java/it/org/apache/struts2/showcase/FileUploadTest.java
index b5246ae2d..fdbc1c311 100644
--- a/apps/showcase/src/test/java/it/org/apache/struts2/showcase/FileUploadTest.java
+++ b/apps/showcase/src/test/java/it/org/apache/struts2/showcase/FileUploadTest.java
@@ -19,35 +19,46 @@
 package it.org.apache.struts2.showcase;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
 
 import org.htmlunit.WebClient;
-import org.htmlunit.html.DomElement;
 import org.htmlunit.html.HtmlFileInput;
 import org.htmlunit.html.HtmlForm;
 import org.htmlunit.html.HtmlInput;
 import org.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage;
 import org.htmlunit.html.HtmlSubmitInput;
-import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
 public class FileUploadTest {
 
     @Test
-    public void testEmptyFile() throws Exception {
+    public void testSimpleFileUpload() throws Exception {
         try (final WebClient webClient = new WebClient()) {
             final HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage(ParameterUtils.getBaseUrl() + "/fileupload/doUpload.action");
             final HtmlForm form = page.getFormByName("doUpload");
             HtmlInput captionInput = form.getInputByName("caption");
             HtmlFileInput uploadInput = form.getInputByName("upload");
             captionInput.type("some caption");
-            File tempFile = File.createTempFile("testEmptyFile", ".tmp");
+            File tempFile = File.createTempFile("testEmptyFile", ".txt");
             tempFile.deleteOnExit();
+
+            try (FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(tempFile)) {
+                writer.append("Some strings");
+            }
+
             uploadInput.setValue(tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
             final HtmlSubmitInput button = form.getInputByValue("Submit");
             final HtmlPage resultPage = button.click();
-            DomElement errorMessage = resultPage.getFirstByXPath("//span[@class='errorMessage']");
-            Assert.assertNotNull(errorMessage);
-            Assert.assertEquals("File cannot be empty", errorMessage.getVisibleText());
+
+            String content = resultPage.getVisibleText();
+            System.out.println(content);
+            assertThat(content).contains(
+                    "ContentType: text/plain",
+                    "Original FileName: " + tempFile.getName(),
+                    "Caption:some caption"
+            );
         }
     }