Selenium MSTest Tutorial: Setup Selenium WebDriver For MSTest Framework In C#

Steps to Download Selenium WebDriver

Before running your first script in MSTest, you need to download and set up Selenium WebDriver.

Selenium WebDriver on Visual Studio can be installed using NuGet, a free and open-source package manager that is specifically designed for the Microsoft Platform. There are two options for installing Selenium WebDriver – using the Visual Studio IDE and using the NuGet Package Manager (PM) Commands.

Using Visual Studio IDE

For installing Selenium WebDriver using the VS IDE, please perform the following steps:

• Navigate to Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Manager NuGet Packages for Solution and search for ‘Selenium.’

• Select Selenium.WebDriver from the search list and click on the Install button.

• For automated browser testing, we make use of the Chrome web browser. Hence, we install the Selenium Chrome Driver. Select Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver from the search list and click on the Install button.

• Now that the Selenium WebDriver installation is complete, you can use the package in the source code. Including the following statements in the source code to verify whether the Selenium WebDriver is installed or not.

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
 
namespace MSTest_Test_Project
{
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
        }
    }
}

Using Package Manager (PM) Commands

If you are more comfortable with the command-line terminal, Selenium WebDriver can also be installed by executing the relevant commands on the Package Manager (PM) console.

• In order to execute commands from the PM console, navigate to Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console.

• The following commands have to be executed on the Package Manager (PM) console:

Install-Package Selenium.WebDriver

• As the Chrome browser is used for testing, we install the Selenium Chrome Driver as we did in the earlier case.

Install-Package Selenium.Chrome.WebDriver

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Shown below is the snapshot of the Package Manager Console:

To verify whether the necessary packages are installed, execute the Get-Package command on the PM console.

PM> Get-Package
 
Id                                  Versions
--                                  --------                                          
Selenium.WebDriver                  {3.141.0}
Selenium.Chrome.WebDriver           {79.0.0}
...... ......
...... ......

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