Test Automation using C# Selenium Web Driver

There are multiple technologies available to develop web applications, like, php, java, ASP.Net, Angular JS, MVC, React. There are numerous tools available to do UI automation testing like QTP, Soap UI, etc. Here I am going to talk about Selenium Web Driver with C# which will ease your UI automation in any of the above languages.

To start with web application automation using Selenium Web Driver, you need to perform below steps:

Create a New Test Automation Project in Visual Studio and add Selenium nugget packages. Below are some screenshots:

1. Create a new test project:

2. Add nuget package : Right click on solution and click manage Nuget packages

3. Browse for Selenium nugets and install to the solution.

4. Verify nuget packages are installed and you can see the same in References section.

5. If you go to location — MyFirstSeleniumWebApplication\packages, you will see all the packages installed there.

You are not ready to write your first ever UI Automation test case in C#. Lets take a scenario to do UI automation for google search. It will follow the below steps:

a. Navigate to Google URL.

b. Identity Google Search text box and provide some inputs.

c. Click on Search button.

Below piece of code help you achieve this:

Code to launch IE and do google search using Selenium Web Driver.

See how easy it is !! Please have a look at the entire source code at my github link.

• Selenium
• Csharp
• Visual Studio

Tarun Babbar

Selenium Web Driver UI Automation on Multiple Browsers

I hope you have gone through my first story on Selenium Driver published here, where I talked about how to create your first ui automation test case using selenium driver and C#. Here, I am going little further to talk about how to do testing across multiple browsers. If you haven’t yet visited, please do visit this link to get initial idea on Selenium Web Driver.

An application is always opened on different browsers — Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari, etc. Selenium web driver is supported for all these browsers. To verify behavior across browsers, Selenium has provided an easy mechanism to instantiate any of Chrome/FF/IE browsers. You can use the below piece of code which would help you achieve the same. Comparing with code I shown in my previous article, here I created a separate class named WebDriver, where I am initializing instance for webdriver, as per the instance required.

Initiate one instance of webdriver pointing to corresponding Browser.

I have an enum where I am storing all the browser types as below:

Launching browsers for each Browsers enum

I’m really loving it guys, so easy with Selenium driver !!

Source code is placed here.

Tarun Babbar