A Data Driven Selenium Framework Using Visual Studio 2017 and C#

This project provides a smaple template for building testing framework using the page object model (POM) architecture. For the solution, we use Visual Studio 2017 community edition with C# and Selenium.

The framework supports the following test

1. Navigate to Googlehome page
2. Enter a search term
3. Verify that we landed on the results page

Archtiecture of the Framework The framework consists of 3 visual studio projects.

1. Pages: Model the application pages. Currently, we have 2 pages: GoogleHomepage and ResultsPage
2. Tests: Allow the testers to write test cases that mimic the manual tests,using the business domain language
3. Browser Library: Provides support for creating/closing browser instances, based on the various types.

The framework supports a data-driven approach. We use an Excel worksheet to read data and execute the test case for each row in the sheet. The test case is executed 6 times, once for browser.

1. EDGE
2. CHROME
3. FIREFOX
4. IE
5. CHROME_HEADLESS
6. FIREFOX_HEADLESS

Objectives

1. How to start an automation framework using the pge object model

The solution has 3 projects. 1.