Matthew Regis

There are times that I need to look up how to implement form interaction with selenium web driver for dotnet, so I decided to put a simple example for myself to look up as a basic reference. The following selenium ui test enters information into a simple contact form and clicks submit and then confirms the URL is correct. In order to run this you have to run this site locally. The source code for this is available here.

using FluentAssertions;
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;

namespace Selenium.Example
{
    public class MySiteTests
    {
        private const string Url = "http://localhost:5080/";
        private const string HamBurgerMenuXPath = @"//*[@id='header']/nav/a";
        private const string ContactMenuXPath = @"//*[@id='menu']/div/ul/li[2]/a";
        private const string ContactNameXPath = @"//*[@id='wrapper']/section/div[1]/div/form/div/div[1]/input";
        private const string ContactEmailXPath = @"//*[@id='wrapper']/section/div[1]/div/form/div/div[2]/input";
        private const string ContactMessageXPath = @"//*[@id='wrapper']/section/div[1]/div/form/div/div[3]/textarea";
        private const string ContactSubmitXPath = @"//*[@id='wrapper']/section/div[1]/div/form/ul/li/button";

        [Test]
        public void ContactForm()
        {
            var chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
            chromeOptions.AddArgument("--headless");
            using var driver = new ChromeDriver(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), chromeOptions);
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
            driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
            driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(Url);
            driver.ClickByXPath(wait, HamBurgerMenuXPath);
            driver.ClickByXPath(wait, ContactMenuXPath);
            driver.EnterInputByXPath(wait, ContactNameXPath, "Matt");
            driver.EnterInputByXPath(wait, ContactEmailXPath, "matt@example.com");
            driver.EnterInputByXPath(wait, ContactMessageXPath, "Hey, is this working?");
            driver.ClickByXPath(wait, ContactSubmitXPath);

            driver.Url.Should().Be($"{Url}contact/success");
        }
    }

    public static class MySiteTestsExtensions
    {
        public static void ClickByXPath(this WebDriver driver, WebDriverWait wait, string xPath)
        {
            var element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(xPath));
            wait.Until(x => x.FindElement(By.XPath(xPath)).Displayed);
            element.Click();
        }

        public static void EnterInputByXPath(this WebDriver driver, WebDriverWait wait, string xPath, string input)
        {
            var element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(xPath));
            ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);
            wait.Until(x => x.FindElement(By.XPath(xPath)).Displayed);
            element.SendKeys(input);
        }
    }
}