Webdriver Safari support on MAC (C#)

[anu]

Hi All,

I wanted to test my website using webdriver(C#) on safari over Mac OSX
but seems it seems to be a distant dream.

First of all a very basic question, i.e. can we use Selenium 2 for
safari as I cant see any safaridriver for it? Many place its mentioned
that we can use chromedriver to test safari, but I could not find any
proper example. Can we set safari browser location and try through
chromedriver.

I tried experimenting around and could come up with following piece of
code. But here also I got an error that it cant resolve
SeleneseCommandExecuter. This class seems to be there for Java but not
for C#.

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Internal;
............

IWebDriver driver;
ICapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities("safari",
string.Empty, new Platform(PlatformType.MacOSX));
ICommandExecutor executor = new
SeleneseCommandExecutor("http:localhost:4444/", "http://
www.google.com/", capabilities);
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(executor, capabilities);


May some one kindly help me in figuring out error in above code or
helping me out in running test for safari on mac. Any help will really
mean a lot

Thanks
Anu

[Jason Corbett]

When they say you can use chrome driver to test safari, that means that Chrome is based on webkit, and so is Safari.  The difference is the javascript toolkits used (Chrome uses V8, Safari uses webkit's default one).  So if your website works well in Chrome, it will probably work well in Safari.

There is no working Safari Driver on mac right now, unfortunately.

Jason Corbett

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[Robert Wilson]

I am new to Selenium.  I am attempting to understand what languages I can use. Specifically, can I use C# and still run tests on Safari, Chrome, and Firefox on OS X?

Thanks.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Robert,

Isn't C# supposed to run only on a Windows platform ? So I don't think you can make use of C# to write tests and run them locally from OS X.

But that being said you can circumvent around this by following one of the below:

1. Use Virtual Box and setup a Windows VM. Now within the Windows VM you can setup your C# dev environment and run tests from within it [ I recently saw Jim Evans the owner of InternetExplorer Driver code state that this is how he has been working ]
2. Get hold of a WINDOWS machine and kick off tests in the Grid mode against the Safari, Chrome, Firefox browsers running on the OS X.

Thanks and Regards

Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Robert Wilson]

Thanks for the update.  I have both VMWare Fusion and Parallels with Windows 8.1 in one and Windows 7 in the other.  I do most of my work in the VM's.

Thanks,

Robert

Thanks,
Robert Wilson
301-807-6859
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[Serguei Kouzmine]

Hello

You certainly can run Selenium C# client code from Windows via hub , note you have to provide an explicit  browser argument when running the node