Use EventFiringWebDriver to log all Actions the WebDriver performs during a UnitTest

[Christian Schulze]

I want to use the EventFiringWebDriver to log everything the WebDriver finds or clicks or do in any way happens on a website. The Goal is to get a complete log off all actions the Webdriver performend during a UnitTest. I need this to report this log if a UnitTest fails to give the developer a red line to reproduce the error. 

A log looks for Example like this:

* FindElementComplete with elementId, FindMethod was xy

* Click on the Element with Id 

* etc. 

This is a simple example but the Method:

public class WebDriverEventListener : EventFiringWebDriver
{
    
    public WebDriverEventListener(IWebDriver parentDriver) : base(parentDriver)
    {
        
        FindElementCompleted += (sender, e) =>
        {
        
        };
    }

only returns the Element from which the FindElement was called like someElement.FindElement(By....) and the FindMethod. If the FindElement Method was called by the WebDriver this Element is null. 

But I want to get the WebElement which has been found to put its ID and some additional infos into a datastructure for later use. For Example I click on an Element and then I only get the internal Id of the Element on which I clicked

A workaround can be: The WebElement from which I want to have the internal ID performs a FindElement(By.CssSelector("*") to become the this WebElement as root Element in the Event FindElementCompleted, but I have to do this inside a try/catch because maybe their is nothing inside this Element. But this is really dirty.

Has anybody a good Idea to realize this Idea?