Internet Explorer automated testing using Selenium C#

Question

I have been looking into using tools for UI testing automatically and seem to have ran into a problem at the first hurdle with Selenium.

It was my understanding that if you used the WebDriver that there was no need for you to setup a Selenium server or anything like this. Basically, all I want to do is create an instance locally of Internet Explorer and control it.

Using this very basic code taken;

var ie = new InternetExplorerDriver();
ie.Navigate().GoToUrl("www.google.co.uk");

I get the following error on the first line;

No response from server for url http://localhost:64333/session

Based on this statement, I am not sure what else I need to do just to get this instance;

Once your project is set up, you can see that WebDriver acts just as any normal library: it is entirely self-contained, and you usually don’t need to remember to start any additional processes or run any installers before using it, as opposed to the proxy server with Selenium-RC.

Suggestions would be appreciated as the WatIn option has come to a halt and I need to see if Selenium can cope with a specific problem in our solution.

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you configured IE correctly (seems to be the only driver which needs configuration). - http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver

Answer 2

Try this:

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get("www.google.co.uk");

You may also want to turn off UAC and retest if you are stilling seeing this.