Selenium in C# for react application?

[MChauMan]

Hi

I am new to this forum and need quick advise.
I have used selenium earlier with C#/.NET framework earlier for .NET web applications.. that worked very well.

Now we have to test another application written in React, I know there are few tools we can choose including selenium.io/nightwatch.js.. and many more.
Since we don't have any expertise in test automation team for node.js/react, Can I still write test cases using C#/.NET framework for this react application?

Please let me know if this can cause any big issue going forward. please let me know some pros and cons if I will be writting in C#/NET.

Thanks
Man Chau

[MChauMan]

Any take on this?

[Baswaraj Malage]

In my opinion, it's always good to use same technology/language (if possible) for application development and test scripts, so that engineer working on your app can even write test script(s) without having to learn different language and vice versa. I did lot of analysis and landed with below technology stack as we are building applications using Javascript.

- Selenium-webdriver– selenium bindings for JavaScript

- Selenium-webdriver/testing/assert – assertion library

- Mocha – test runner

If you prefer to use webdriver.io or nightwatch then that's also a good option as you get standard framework to quickly start automation for your application using Javascript. However, looks like selenium-webdriver is more popular in the community, https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=selenium-webdriver&package=nightwatch&package=webdriverio&from=2015-11-01&to=2016-11-30

Thanks

Baswaraj