Getting Started with Automation

With a bit of lax time in between two releases, I am trying to automate our regression test-cases we run after each build. To keep the cost in check I am trying to get this working using Selenium, C# and NUnit. However as I try to Google the basic tutorials for doing so I always find something that assumes the reader understands how Visual Studio, .NET versions and C# work. (I have no clue about the environment setup, though if all is set I am quite positive I can churn out a windows as well as a web application in C#)

So for my own sake and for those poor souls who find themselves in similar situation as mine I am planning to develop a step by step series for automation using Selenium, Visual Studio C# 2010 Express, and NUnit. I will be putting up a series of posts as I learn to do the things myself. Each post will contain a simple goal that I will solve/reach most probably with someone’s help (which will be listed in the credits)

Goal: Setup all the required software for test automation

Steps:

1. Selenium 2  (Selenium IDE 1.0.10)
   i)        You can follow the detailed download and install steps for Selenium IDE on the official Selenium site here(Just ignore the first download page image)
   ii)       For Selenium 2.0 we need to download the Selenium Client Driver for the language of our choice i.e. C# (The download site has two drivers for C# - C# Selenium RC 1.0.3 and C# Selenium WebDriver 2.0rc3, as I am not sure what is the difference between them I have downloaded both – Might revisit this post in future when I understand the difference)
   iii)     Once installation is complete you should be able to start the IDE from the Firefox > Tools menu (NOTE: IDE 1.0.10 is compatible with Firefox 3.6 only, so if you have already upgraded your Firefox to version 4 or 5 you will need to uninstall them and install version 3 again)
2. Visual C# 2010 Express
   i)        Download the Visual C# 2010 Express from Microsoft’s site here and run through the simple installation setup
3. Nunit 2.5.10
   i)        Download .msi file for NUnit from the official website here and run the setup process

Hopefully you won’t face any glitches during the installations and have all the three components up and running in no time.