Web application automation test in VS by selenium

Let me give a brief introduction to selenium at first:
Selenium is a set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for web-based applications.    Two major tools will be used here:    Selenium-IDE (Integrated Development Environment):  A Firefox add-on, which has a recording feature and will keep account of user actions and store them as a reusable script to play back.    Selenium-RC (Remote Control): This allows using high-level programming language (HTML, Java, C#, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby) to develop test cases and allows automated testing to be integrated with a project’s automated build environment.

Now I will introduce how to do web application automation test in VS by selenium:

　　1. Some tools to install:
　　　　a) As selenium-IDE is an only Firefox add-on, Firefox is required to install at first.
　　　　b) Download and install Selenium-IDE, download Selenium-RC and unzip it to local disk from http://seleniumhq.org/download.
　　　　c) Java is required to install as it is used to start Selenium-RC server.

　　2. Open Firefox, start Selenium-IDE (Tools -> Selenium IDE) to record test case.

　　　　

　　3. Export test case generated by Selenium-IDE to C# code(baidu.cs):

　　　　　　　

 

[TestFixture]
public class baidu
{
    private ISelenium selenium;
    private StringBuilder verificationErrors;

    [SetUp]
    public void SetupTest()
    {
        selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://www.baidu.com/");
        selenium.Start();
        verificationErrors = new StringBuilder();
    }

    [TearDown]
    public void TeardownTest()
    {
        try
        {
            selenium.Stop();
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            // Ignore errors if unable to close the browser
        }
        Assert.AreEqual("", verificationErrors.ToString());
    }

    [Test]
    public void TheBaiduTest()
    {
        selenium.Open("/");
        selenium.Type("kw", "google");
        selenium.Click("su");
        selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("30000");
        selenium.Click("//table[@id='1']/tbody/tr/td/a/font");
    }
}

 

　　4. Create a test project in VSTT.

      5. Copy .dll files from unzipped Selenium-RC folder “~\selenium-remote-control-1.0.1\selenium-dotnet-client-driver-1.0.1” to your test project’s \Bin\Debug folder and add reference.

　　　　　　

　　6. Add a new unit test file, copy the c# code generated by Selenium-IDE to the unit test file, and change the attribute of methods to that supported by VSTT:

　　　　

　　7. Before you run your test, you should start selenium-server at first,
   　　 start　java  -jar  selenium-server.jar  -forcedbrowsermode *firefox(*googlechrome, *iexplore, *opera, *safari, ...)
　　8. Run automation test cases:
           mstest /runconfig:%TestProjPath%\TestRunConfig.testrunconfig /testmetadata:%TestProjPath%\[testname].vsmdi /testlist:%TestToRun% /resultsfile:%TestProjPath%\TestResults\[resultname].trx, %TestToRun% is the test list you select to run in [testname].vsmdi.