Automating functional tests in C#

Automated functional tests use the same test tools as unit and integration tests. That is, these tests can be embedded in the same xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest projects that we described in the previous section. However, in this case, we must add further tools that can interact with and inspect the UI.

In the remainder of this chapter, we will focus on web applications since they are the main focus of this book. Accordingly, if we are testing web APIs, we just need HttpClient instances since they can easily interact with web API endpoints in both XML and JSON.

In the case of applications that return HTML pages, the interaction is more complex since we also need tools for parsing and interacting with the HTML page DOM tree.

The Selenium toolset is a great solution since it has drivers for simulating user interaction in all mainstream browsers and for programmatically accessing the browser DOM.

There are two basic options for testing a web...