Selenium IDE, C# Visual Studio, and MSTest

Within Visual Studio Package Manager install packages

Within Visual Studio package manager

•     Install-Package Selenium.RC (optional)
•     Install-Package Selenium.WebDriver
•     Install-Package Selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium
•     Install-Package Selenium.Support

Or, download zip file from: Selenium Webpage

    Extact zip file.
    Within Visual Studio add reference to these dlls

•     Selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium.dll
•     ThoughtWorks.Selenium.Core.dll
•     WebDriver.dll
•     WebDriver.Support.dll

Now, Visual Studio has reference Selenium

Download the Internet Explorer Driver Server from: Selenium Webpage

    Download should be a single .exe file: IEDriverServer.exe

    Very Important that the IE Driver is able to find IEDriverServer.exe

• Move IEDriverServer.exe into MS Test project's bin\debug folder
• Or, make sure IEDriverServer.exe absolute path is added to the Path environment variables.

Start > right click Computer > properties > Advance system settings

Environment Variables > scroll down to Path > Edit > add, at end of text, the folder's absolute path where IEDriverServer.exe is found.

 

Install Selenium IDE Firefox plugin

After installing plugin, open Firefox, click on Tools > Selenium IDE

 

Using Selenium IDE, record some actions by clicking IDE's record button.

Export as C# / NUnit / WebDriver and save into project's folder

Generated NUnit Test Class

After changer were made

Must Include reference to

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting

in projects.

Within Visual Studio, create a Unit Test Project

    Remove UnitTest1.cs file

This post is for the purpose of my notes only and sometimes a rant.

“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

Henry Ford