Visual Studio 2010 (win 7 x64) Selenium Unit Test Keeps Pending

Question

I am trying for several hours to make a Unit Testing with Selenium driver for a custom website. The problem is, my first test case is always pending. I haven't written any other. I tried several different tutorials, but none works. What I have done:

• Install Selenium WebDriver through NuGet Console (have a reference);
• Install Selenium WebDriver.Support through NuGet (have a reference);
• I have even turned the firewall off;

Lastly, I am following the tutorial on this page dotnet-developer.de! The tutorial does not work too. It is given in vb.net, but I have translated it in C# as follows:

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

namespace FastMenuSeleniumTests
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for UnitTest1
    /// </summary>
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {

        public IWebDriver driver;
        const string BaseURL = "http://www.bing.com";

        public UnitTest1()
        {
            // do nothing
        }

        private TestContext testContextInstance;

        /// <summary>
        ///Gets or sets the test context which provides
        ///information about and functionality for the current test run.
        ///</summary>
        public TestContext TestContext
        {
            get
            {
                return testContextInstance;
            }
            set
            {
                testContextInstance = value;
            }
        }

        #region Additional test attributes
        //
        // You can use the following additional attributes as you write your tests:
        //
        // Use ClassInitialize to run code before running the first test in the class
        // [ClassInitialize()]
        // public static void MyClassInitialize(TestContext testContext) { }
        //
        // Use ClassCleanup to run code after all tests in a class have run
        // [ClassCleanup()]
        // public static void MyClassCleanup() { }
        //
        // Use TestInitialize to run code before running each test 
        [TestInitialize()]
        public void TestInitialization() 
        {
            driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            //System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en");
            //System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en");
        }
        //
        // Use TestCleanup to run code after each test has run
        [TestCleanup()]
        public void TestCleanup() 
        {
            driver.Quit();
        }
        //
        #endregion

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
            IWebElement SearchBox = default(IWebElement);
            IWebElement FirstResult = default(IWebElement);

            //Go to Bing Homepage
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(BaseURL);

            //Get Handle for Searchbox
            SearchBox = GetWebElement(driver, By.Id("sb_form_q"), 10);

            //Enter Search Text
            SearchBox.SendKeys("dotnet-developer.de");

            //Different ways to start the search
            //Method 1: Press ENTER
            SearchBox.SendKeys(Keys.Enter);

            //Method 2: Grab Search-Button and click it
            //Dim SearchButton As IWebElement
            //SearchButton = GetWebElement(driver, By.Id("sb_form_go"), 10)
            //SearchButton.Click()

            //Now get the first result returned by Bing search
            FirstResult = GetWebElement(driver, By.XPath("//ul[@class='sb_results']/li/div/div/div/h3/a"), 10);

            //Method 1: Compare the subject
            string ExpectedText = "dotnet-developer.de | Tips for vb.net,…";
            Assert.AreEqual(ExpectedText, FirstResult.Text, "Subject is not correct");

            //Method 2: Compare the link
            string ExpectedURL = "http://www.dotnet-developer.de/";
            Assert.AreEqual(ExpectedURL, FirstResult.GetAttribute("href"), "URL is not correct!");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve Web Element using default driver and default timeout
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="definition">Definition of the WebElement to grab</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        /// <remarks></remarks>
        private IWebElement GetWebElement(OpenQA.Selenium.By definition)
        {
            const int DefaultTimeout = 10;
            return GetWebElement(definition, DefaultTimeout);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve Web Element using default driver
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="definition">Definition of the WebElement to grab</param>
        /// <param name="timeoutSeconds">Seconds to wait until a timeout is thrown</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        /// <remarks></remarks>
        private IWebElement GetWebElement(OpenQA.Selenium.By definition, int timeoutSeconds)
        {
            return GetWebElement(driver, definition, timeoutSeconds);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Waits until the given element is enabled and visible
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="webDriver"></param>
        /// <param name="definition"></param>
        /// <param name="seconds"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        /// <remarks>Needs to wait for .displayed because for e.g. in a collapsed Treeview all nodes are available but not visible 
        /// if the parent node is collapsed and therefore the following error would appear:
        /// OpenQA.Selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
        /// </remarks>
        private IWebElement GetWebElement(IWebDriver webDriver, OpenQA.Selenium.By definition, int seconds)
        {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds));

            wait.Until(d => { return d.FindElement(definition).Enabled & d.FindElement(definition).Displayed; });

            return webDriver.FindElement(definition);
        }

    }
}

Answer 1

I have identified the problem myself. First of all, I have to be more specific about the software on my machine. I have installed both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 on my PC. I was trying to make the tests in Visual Studio 2010, but they were pending. When I opened the tests in VS 2012, all run fine and I had no problem. It seems both VS mess up something (which I am not aware of) and I need to use the later version.