Advanced Selenium with C# Training Course

Introduction

Preparing Visual Studio IDE for Selenium Testing

• Setting up Selenium libraries for Visual Studio

Strategies for Locating Objects

• Identifying objects in Selenium WebDriver (Name, ID, CSS Selector, XPath, etc.)
• Handling dynamic objects

Capturing and Validating Data

• Capturing and validating data from web tables, options in drop-down lists, html trees, etc.

Logging Strategies

• Using log4net to save logs
• Generating HTML logs
• Saving logs to Excel
• Attaching screenshots to logs

Reading Locaters Whose Value Changes (dynamic Html element ID, etc.)

• Using regular expressions
• Using gobbling

Optimizing the Test Code

• Refactoring custom control methods
• Reducing parameters
• Using strongly typed parameters
• Making code reusable

Data Driven Testing Using Selenium WebDriver in C#

• Reading from test data source
• ODBC source, CSV files, Excel files, DAO objects, ADO objects, etc
• Executing a sample test

Working with Databases

• Connecting to the database
• Sending queries to the database
• Processing the results

Testing with Multiple Browsers

• Running a test against multiple browsers
• Running multiple tests against multiple browsers
• Creating a test suite

Distributing Tests with Selenium Grid

• Parallel testing using C# and NUnit
• Setting up Selenium hub and nodes
• Tweaking the Selenium scripts
• Executing tests on different machines and browsers in parallel

Continuous Testing Strategies

• Integrating Selenium tests into automated build and delivery process

Troubleshooting

• When test results in Visual Studio differ from test results during automated build process

Summary and Conclusion