Run Selenium Tests With C# On LambdaTest

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Prerequisites

Before you can start performing C# automation testing with Selenium, you would need to:

Download and install Selenium WebDriver from its official website.
Make sure you have the latest version of C#.
.Net framework to deliver guidelines while developing a range of application using C#.
Download Selenium WebDriver Language Binding for C# and extract them to appropriate folder. A .NET Core SDK of 2.1 or greater version.

Installing Selenium Dependencies And Tutorial Repo

Step 1: Clone the LambdaTest CSharp-NUnit-Selenium GitHub repository and navigate to the code directory as shown below:

git clone https://github.com/LambdaTest/CSharp-Selenium-Sample
cd CSharp-Selenium-Sample

Setting up Your Authentication

Make sure you have your LambdaTest credentials with you to run C# automation scripts. You can obtain these credentials from the LambdaTest Automation Dashboard or by your LambdaTest Profile.

Step 2: Set LambdaTest Username and Access Key in environment variables.

For Linux/macOS:

export LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME" export LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR ACCESS KEY"

For Windows:

set LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME" set LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR ACCESS KEY"

Run Your First Test

Test Scenario: Checkout sample NUnitSeleniumTests.cs file. This NUnit Selenium script tests a sample to-do list app by marking couple items as done, adding a new item to the list and finally displaying the count of pending items as output.

Step 3: Navigate to singleTest.cs using VSCode. Copy and replace this code in the singleTest.cs file in the project you opened in the previous step.

Configuration of Your Test Capabilities

Step 4: In the test script, you need to update your test capabilities. In this code, we are passing browser, browser version, and operating system information, along with LambdaTest Selenium grid capabilities via capabilities object.

The capabilities object in the above code are defined as:

 ChromeOptions capabilities = new ChromeOptions();
            capabilities.BrowserVersion = 'latest';
            Dictionary<string, object> ltOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
            ltOptions.Add("username", LT_USERNAME);
            ltOptions.Add("accessKey", LT_ACCESS_KEY);
            ltOptions.Add("platformName", "Windows 10");
            ltOptions.Add("project", "Demo LT");
            ltOptions.Add("w3c", true);
            ltOptions.Add("plugin", "c#-c#");
            capabilities.AddAdditionalOption('LT:Options', ltOptions);

Note: You can generate capabilities for your test requirements with the help of Desired Capabilitiy Generator.

Executing the Test

Single Test

dotnet run single

Parallel Tests

dotnet run parallel

Executing in Linux/macOS

Install dotnet runtime from https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh

 chmod +x ./dotnet-install.sh;
 ./dotnet-install.sh --version latest;

Your results would be displayed on the test console and on the LambdaTest Automation Dashboard.

Running Your Parallel Tests Using dotnet runtime

Executing parallel tests in Windows/Linux/MacOS

dotnet run parallel

Your results would be displayed on the test console and on the LambdaTest Automation Dashboard.

Testing Locally Hosted Or Privately Hosted Projects

You can test your locally hosted or privately hosted projects with LambdaTest Selenium grid using LambdaTest Tunnel. All you would have to do is set up an SSH tunnel using tunnel and pass toggle tunnel = True via desired capabilities. LambdaTest Tunnel establishes a secure SSH protocol based tunnel that allows you in testing your locally hosted or privately hosted pages, even before they are live.

Refer our LambdaTest Tunnel documentation for more information.

Here’s how you can establish LambdaTest Tunnel.

Download the binary file of:

Open command prompt and navigate to the binary folder.

Run the following command:

LT -user {username} -key {user’s access key}

So if your user name is lambdatest@example.com and key is 123456, the command would be:

LT -user lambdatest-username -key 123456

Once you are able to connect LambdaTest Tunnel successfully, you would just have to pass on tunnel capabilities in the code shown below :

Tunnel Capability

ltOptions.Add("tunnel", true);

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