Writing REPL scripts on side-by-side Chrome and IE

Following the Chrome-Hijacking posts, I’m starting to convert the WatiN Extension methods into ChromeDriver, and to do so needed to execute requests side-by-side (to test the APIs and to be able to write UnitTests for them).

To do that (side-by-side Chrome and IE execution) I wrote this script:

When the best way to automate Chrome is to use ... Chrome (with examples on Google search, direct AngularJS scope manipulation and ChromeDriver javascript access)

On the topic of Web Automation, I always wanted to have a REPL environment for Chrome like I have for IE (using Watin).

In the past I have explored multiple solutions, for example the use of CefSharp (see here and here). But that was never the real thing, and there was always a couple issues (caused by the fact that the ‘real’ chrome wasn't being used).

For a while, in the back on my mind the solution was simple and obvious: Use the real Chrome process in a way that it can be programmatically accessed from an O2’s C# repl environment!

Well, the good news is that is exactly what I have done :)

I just created the Gui you can see below, which uses the Window-Hikacking technique to inject an (Selenium's ChromeDriver started) Chrome process' window in a Panel, and pass its reference (as a variable) to an O2 REPL environment.

Controlling Selenium and Chrome WebDriver from a C# REPL GUI (while fixing UnitTest)

When I was Running TeamMentor WebAutomation UnitTests locally (using Selenium and ChromeDriver), there were a number of TeamMentor's UnitTests that failed, and could not be fixed with simple changes or re-execution

This post shows how I used the O2 Platform's FluentSharp REPL script_Me capabilities to debug the problem and find a solution.

Running TeamMentor WebAutomation UnitTests locally (using Selenium and ChromeDriver)

If you want to run the TeamMentor's WebAutomation UnitTests (for example to see how we use Selenium and the multiple WebDrivers, like ChromeDriver), there are couple gotchas that you will need to take into account.

This post shows how I went from a git clone to a full execution of all unit tests.

AppSscan Enterprise & Selenium (can you help?)

Early today I received this question:

"I've been looking for a way to integrate Appscan Enterprise with Selenium and noted some blog posts of yours that show integration with Appscan for various purposes.

I would like to know if you have any ideas on how it may be possible to glue together Selenium & Appscan.  I'm wishing there was a way to port Selenium to Manual Explore."

to which I replied:

PoC - Selenium - Gui with 3 Hijacked Browser Windows.h2

While working on TeamMentor’s browser automation using Selenium, I created a pretty cool PoC/Script where I was able to show natively the 3 main browsers (IE, Firefox and Chrome) in the same Application/GUI.

The O2 Platform script is called PoC - Selenium - Gui with 3 Hijacked Browser Windows.h2, and this is what it looks like when opened up:

Using TeamCity and NUnit to Start WebServer, Run Selenium Tests and Stop WebServer

Following the move to split the TeamMentor Brower automation tests into the UnitTests_WebAutomation repository, I just committed a bunch of git pushes (from here up to here) and customized a TeamCity project , so that TeamCity EC2 box will:

Using Selenium to Login using Multiple Browsers

Following from yesterday's posts:

• Coding Firefox in C# in real-time using Selenium's Firefox driver and  
• OpenQA.Selenium.DriverServiceNotFoundException on Chrome

Michael added IE support overnight, and here is a pretty cool PoC of running TeamMentor's Login UnitTest using 3 browsers (IE, Firefox and Chrome):

OpenQA.Selenium.DriverServiceNotFoundException on Chrome

While trying to running a TeamMentor UnitTest in Chrome I got this error:

Coding Firefox in C# in real-time using Selenium's Firefox driver

The best way to write and debug Selenium Web Automation scripts is to be able to be able to write code snippets in real time (in a REPL)

This post will show how I just did that for the TeamMentor’s UnitTests environment that Michael Hidalgo is working on.