How do I use Selenium in C#?

Question

Selenium.

I downloaded the C# client drivers and the IDE. I managed to record some tests and successfully ran them from the IDE. But now I want to do that using C#. I

Answer 1

From the Selenium Documentation:

using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium;

class GoogleSuggest
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        //Notice navigation is slightly different than the Java version
        //This is because 'get' is a keyword in C#
        driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com/");
        IWebElement query = driver.FindElement(By.Name("q"));
        query.SendKeys("Cheese");
        System.Console.WriteLine("Page title is: " + driver.Title);
        driver.Quit();
    }
}

Answer 2

1. You will need to install Microsoft Visual Studio community Edition
2. Create a new project as Test Project of C#
3. Add Selenium references from the NuGet Package Manager. Then you will be all set.
4. Create a new class and use [Test Class] and [Test Method] annotations to run your script
5. You can refer to Run Selenium C# | Setup Selenium and C# | Configure Selenium C# for more details.

Answer 3

1. Install the NuGet packet manager

   Download link: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/27077b70-9dad-4c64-adcf-c7cf6bc9970c

2. Create a C# console application

3. Right-click on the project → Manage NuGet Packages. Search for "Selenium" and install package Selenium.Support.

You are done now, and you are ready to write your code :)

For code with Internet Explorer, download the Internet Explorer driver.

Link: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

• Open 2.45 as its the latest release
• Download IEDriverServer_x64_2.45.0.zip or IEDriverServer_Win32_2.45.0.zip
• Extract and simply paste the .exe file at any location, for example C:\
• Remember the path for further use.

Overall reference link: Selenium 2.0 WebDriver with Visual Studio, C#, & IE – Getting Started

My sample code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;

namespace Selenium_HelloWorld
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver("C:\\");
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://108.178.174.137");
            driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
            driver.FindElement(By.Id("inputName")).SendKeys("apatra");
            driver.FindElement(By.Id("inputPassword")).SendKeys("asd");
            driver.FindElement(By.Name("DoLogin")).Click();

            string output = driver.FindElement( By.XPath(".//*[@id='tab-general']/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/strong")).Text;

            if (output != null  )
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Test Passed :) ");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Test Failed");
            }
        }
    }
}