Running Selenium tests from Visual Studio – Step by step

From Firefox, record new selenium test, for example for Google search

Export the test to C# web drive

This is how it looks like after export

Open visual studio, create new test project

By default the file UnitTest1.cs is created

Create a new cs file, name it for example GoogleSearch

Copy the code from the cs file generated by selenium and paste it in the file GoogleSearch.cs

Add reference in the project to Selenium .Net WebDriver, WebDriver.dll and WebDriver.Support.dl

Now the references added, you can see that the editor recognizes the selenium name spaces

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

Find and replace “TestFixture” to “TestClass”, “SetUp” to “TestInitialize()”, “Test” to “TestMethod”, “TearDown” to “TestCleanup()”

To run with Chrome, download chromedriver.exe from https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list, place it in the bin folder

Change the driver in the code to Chrome then run the test

driver = new OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver();

Running the test, chrome will open, and Google search page will be displayed, displaying search results then closed

This was a step by step example on running selenium test from visual studio