Selenium WebDriver - C#

The introductory course that takes you from beginner through to writing effective automated tests in Selenium WebDriver .NET

The course covers all the essential principles of using the Selenium WebDriver automation framework in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Designed for beginners as well as testers with previous automation experience, it takes the newcomer to Selenium through all the basic techniques of writing effective automated web tests.

Throughout the course, practical examples are demonstrated, and the delegates get to practice what they have learned in each chapter against a Web training application.

By the end of the course you should have a thorough understanding of how to develop reliable, robust Selenium Web Tests using Selenium WebDriver and other tools.

You may also be interested in Selenium WebDriver - Java.

Who Should Attend?

  • Newcomers to Selenium

Attendees should have a basic understanding of HTML and how Web Pages are developed. Some programming experience would be advantageous - The course is based on WebDriver C# .NET, but does not teach you C# as you can use a variety of programming languages with WebDriver.

Exam Details

There is no exam as part of this course.

Objectives

  • Understand the key principles of test automation using Selenium WebDriver
  • Understand how to structure your automated testing including the Page Object Model
  • Gain a full understanding of how Selenium integrates with the Application Under Test
  • Understand how to manage Object Recognition, using techniques such as Xpath and CSS

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Please note: this course runs on demand so the price is TBC. It can be arranged to run on-site at your offices as Training for Teams or as a public course if there is sufficient interest.

Please contact us for more details.

Course Content and Agenda

Over two days, the following areas will be covered:

  • An overview
    • the Selenium tools
    • Unit testing frameworks
    • Supported browsers
  • Libraries & extensions in VS2015
  • Using NuGet to install the required libraries
  • How to organise your file structure
  • Creating our initial NUnit Test
  • The import statements
  • Invoking a browser
  • Writing to the console
  • Writing the code to login to the website
  • Element locator strategies
  • Chrome developer tools and other extensions
  • Regular expressions
  • Index
  • Xpath functions
  • What is Synchronisation?
  • Adding delay
  • Implicit versus explicit waits - common examples
  • How to capture values from the Web Site
  • Using asserts
  • Execution flow
  • Debugging tools
  • How to build more than one test, in a single class
  • NUnit fixtures
  • Execution order
  • NUnit traits/categories
  • Playlists

  • Creating a Test Base Class to use through Inheritance for SetUp & TearDown

  • Reusable code
  • Common examples such as handling alerts & pop-ups
  • Console reporting
  • Taking Screenshots
  • Creating Dynamic HTML Results with Extent Reports

  • Handling differences between Browsers, Tips for Edge & IE Browsers

  • Data driving your tests using in-line test data
  • Using external sources such as CSV files
  • Refactoring our tests to use a page object model
  • Developing a library of pages (POMs)
  • Fluent Coding
  • Using Application config files to store global values
  • Command-line execution with the NUnit Console Runner
  • Integrating with Git & GitHub
  • Integrating with Jenkins or Azure DevOps for C.I.
  • Parallel Test Execution using NUint or Azure DevOps
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