Selenium Webdriver Recipes in C#

✍ Scribed by Zhimin Zhan

• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Solve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects.

You'll learn:

How to locate web elements and test functions for hyperlinks, buttons, TextFields and TextAreas, radio buttons, CheckBoxes, and more How to use Selenium WebDriver for select lists, navigation, assertions, frames, file upload and pop-up dialogs How to debug test scripts and test data How to manage and deal with browser profiles and capabilities
How to manage tests for advanced user interactions and experiences (UX) How to work with and manage tests and testing using Selenium Remote Control and Selenium Server
AudienceThis book is for experienced .NET and C# Windows application programmers/developers.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents at a Glance
Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Selenium Language Bindings
Set up the Development Environment
Prerequisites
Set up Visual Studio Solution
Create a test and run it
Cross-Browser Testing
Firefox
Chrome
Internet Explorer
Edge
Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework
Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework Fixtures
Alternative Framework NUnit
Run Recipe Scripts
Run Tests in Visual Studio
Find the Test Case
Run Individual Test Case
Run all Test Cases in a Test Script File
Run all Tests
Run Tests from the Command Line
Chapter 2: Locating Web Elements
Start browser
Find element by ID
Find element by Name
Find element by Link Text
Find element by Partial Link Text
Find element by XPath
Find element by Tag Name
Find element by Class
Find element by CSS Selector
Chain FindElement to find child elements
Find multiple elements
Chapter 3: Hyperlink
Click a link by text
Click a link by ID
Click a link by partial text
Click a link by XPath
Click nth link with exact same label
Click nth link by CSS selector
Verify that a link is present or not
Getting link data attributes
Test links open a new browser window
Chapter 4: Button
Click a button by text
Click a form button by text
Submit a form
Click a button by ID
Click a button by name
Click an image button
Click a button via JavaScript
Assert a button present
Assert a button enabled or disabled
Chapter 5: TextField and TextArea
Enter Text into a Text Field by Name
Enter Text into a Text Field by ID
Enter Text into a Password Field
Clear a Text Field
Enter Text into a Multiline Text Area
Assert Value
Focus on a Control
Set a Value to a Read-only or Disabled Text Field
Set and assert the value of a hidden field
Chapter 6: Radio Button
Select a Radio Button
Clear Radio Option Selection
Assert a Radio Option is Selected
Iterate Radio Buttons in a Radio Group
Click nth Radio Button in a Group
Click Radio Button by the Following Label
Customized Radio Buttons: iCheck
Chapter 7: Check Box
Check by name
Check by ID
Clear a check box
Assert a check box is checked (or not)
Chain FindElement to find child elements
Customized Check Boxes: iCheck
Chapter 8: Select List
Select an option by text
Select an option by value
Select an option by index
Select an option by iterating all options
Select multiple options
Clear one selection
Clear all selections
Assert selected option
Assert the value of a select list
Assert multiple selections
Chapter 9: Navigation and Browser
Go to a URL
Visit pages within a site
Perform actions from the right-click context menu
Open browser in certain size
Maximize browser window
Move browser window
Minimize browser window
Scroll focus to control
Switch between browser windows or tabs
Remember current web page URL and return to it later
Chapter 10: Assertion
Assert page title
Assert page text
Assert page source
Assert checkbox selected
Assert button enabled
Assert label text
Assert span text
Assert div text or HTML
Assert table text
Assert text in a table cell
Assert text in a table row
Assert image present
Chapter 11: Frames
Testing Frames
Testing iframe
Test multiple iframes
Chapter 12: AJAX
Wait within a time frame
Explicit waits until time out
Implicit waits until time out
Wait AJAX call to complete using JQuery
Chapter 13: Pop-up
File upload
JavaScript pop-ups
Modal style dialog boxes
Timeout on a test
Pop-up handler approach
Basic or Proxy Authentication dialog box
Internet Explorer modal dialog box
Chapter 14: Debugging Test Scripts
Print text for debugging
Write page source or element HTML into a file
Take a screenshot
Leave the browser open after test finishes
Debug test execution using Debugger
Enable breakpoints
Execute one test case in debugging mode
Step over test execution
Chapter 15: Test Data
Get date dynamically
Get a random boolean value
Generate a number within a range
Get a random character
Get a random string at fixed length
Get a random string in a collection
Generate a test file at fixed sizes
Retrieve data from database
Chapter 16: Browser Profile
Get browser type and version
Set HTTP proxy for browser
Verify file download in Chrome
Ve rify file download in Firefox
Bypass basic authentication by embedding username and password in URL
Bypass basic authentication with Firefox AutoAuth plug-in
Manage cookies
Headless browser testing with PhantomJS
Test responsive web sites
Chapter 17: Advanced User Interactions
Double-click a control
Move mouse to a control: Mouse over
Click and hold: Select multiple items
Context click: Right-click a control
Drag-and-drop
Drag slider
Send key sequences: Select All and Delete
Chapter 18: HTML5 and JavaScript
HTML5 email type field
HTML5 time field
Invoke ‘onclick’ JavaScript event
Invoke JavaScript events such as onchange
Scroll to the bottom of a page
Chosen: Standard select
Chosen: Multiple select
AngularJS web pages
Ember JS web pages
Chapter 19: WYSIWYG Editor
TinyMCE
CKEditor
SummerNote
CodeMirror
Chapter 20: Leverage Programming
Throw exceptions to fail test
Flag incomplete tests
Stop test execution during debugging a test
Ignorable test statement error
Read external file
Data-driven tests with Excel
Data-driven tests with CSV
Identify element IDs with dynamically generated long prefixes
Sending special keys such as Enter to an element or browser
Use of Unicode in test scripts
Extract a group of dynamic data: Verify search results in order
Verify uniqueness of a set of data
Extract dynamic visible data rows from a results table
Extract dynamic text following a pattern using Regex
Chapter 21: Optimization
Assert string in page_source is faster than the text
Getting text from more specific elements is faster
Avoid programming if-else block code if possible
Use variable to cache unchanged data
Enter large text into a text box
Use environment variables to change test behaviors dynamically
Test a web app in two languages
Multi-language testing with lookups
Chapter 22: Gotchas
Test starts browser but no execution with blank screen
Be aware of browser and driver changes
Failed to assert copied text in browser
The same test works for Chrome, but not for Internet Explorer
“Unexpected tag name ‘input’”
Element is not clickable or not visible
Chapter 23: Remote Control Server
Selenium Server installation
Execute tests in the specified browser on another machine
Selenium Grid
Start the hub
Start the nodes
Using Grid to run tests
Concerns with Selenium Grid
Chapter 24: Afterword
Practice makes perfect
Write tests
Improve programming skills
Successful test automation
Maintain test scripts to keep up with application changes
Shorten test execution time to get quick feedback
Chapter 25: Resources
Books
Web sites
Tools
Index