Selenium C# Tutorial: Writing your first test
Updated: Mar 5
This post will show how to write a simple test case in selenium using C#. The site that I will use is available for free https://demowf.aspnetawesome.com/.
To allow selenium to interact with the browser and its elements, we need to provide a way to identify each element and its corresponding attributes. For example, if we want to access and write text in the “Autocomplete” window, we first need to provide selenium a unique identifier so he can recognize and access it.
To do it, we can inspect the element by right-clicking on it and selecting the inspect option. As you can see, the element is a unique ID (Which is not always the case) that we will use in our code.
Code:
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using System;
namespace SeleniumCSharpCourse2021
{
public class Tests
{
public IWebDriver Driver;
[SetUp]
public void Setup()
{
Driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}
[Test]
public void Test1()
{
Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://demowf.aspnetawesome.com/");//To open the site
Driver.FindElement(By.Id("ContentPlaceHolder1_Meal")).SendKeys("Tomato");//To locate and send text
//Assert.Pass();
//Driver.Quit();
}
}
}
The element's ID is not always available, so we have other options to locate elements. In this example, we will identify an element by its XPath:
Code:
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using System;
namespace SeleniumCSharpCourse2021
{
public class Tests
{
public IWebDriver Driver;
[SetUp]
public void Setup()
{
Driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}
[Test]
public void Test1()
{
Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://demowf.aspnetawesome.com/");//To open the site
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/form/div[3]/div/div[3]/div/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[2]/div/ul/li[1]/label/div[1]/div/div")).Click();
}
}
}