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[Anneline van der Merwe]

Good day, as a beginner of Specflow I am struggling with a script that does the following:

I need help please

Open browser

Login with Username and Password

Click on the Login button

Home landing page shows

Logout

My script includes: Specflow, EPPlus(reading data from an EXcel speadsheet..looping through the rows with a For loop(Url, Username, Password).

I am attaching my script which is working without using Specflow.

Thank you

[Sean Killeen]

Hey there Anneline,

I hadn't seen any responses to this so thought I'd put a few thoughts down.

It's unclear to me if you are still seeking to use the Excel file in your process or not, so I'll try to speak to both scenarios. This is my thought process, which may be lacking some of your context, so apologies if I make assumptions.

• I would first question: is this necessary? Is the goal to ensure that every single user in the list can login? Or, is the goal to ensure that the login functionality works as expected? If it's the latter, I would avoid a large list of usernames and passwords and instead keep the scenario small.
• The next step, I think, is to change the approach in terms of language. What is actually being described in terms of functionality? I suggest it would be something like the below in your SpecFlow feature file:

# Modify to suit your needs

Feature: Logins

As a user

I want to be able to login

So that I can see my customized profile information

Scenario Outline: Logging in a registered user

Given I am on the home page

When I enter the username <username>

And I enter the password <password>

And I click login

Then I should be authenticated

# These would be copied from your Excel file into the scenario file (see my suggestion later for then switching to Excel)

Examples:

| username | password |

| user1 | password1 |

| user2 | password2 |

There are various different takes / approaches on this format; my example above is just a draft suggestion.

In terms of executing, we therefore have something like:

(Implied setup)

• Initialize a Chrome Driver
• Know the URL to Hit

Given I am on the home page

• Navigate to home page

When I enter the username <username>

• Enter the provided username in the username field

And I enter the password <password>

• Enter the provided password in the password field

And I click login

• Click the login button

Then I should be authenticated

• Check something (to see if a profile icon exists maybe?)

(Implied scenario tear-down)

• Logout

(Implied test run tear-down)

• Quit Chrome

So, if we were to create the Steps file for our example feature file above, it might look like the below. Note that this is not something I've thoroughly tested, but rather is something to get you started.

This is also available in a gist now at a https://gist.github.com/SeanKilleen/16552bbd65bc53f21695950cedc5a296 

    [Binding]
    public sealed class UserLoginSteps : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly IWebDriver _driver;
        private const string HOME_PAGE_URL = "https://seankilleen.com";
        private readonly Uri _homePageUri;

        private readonly ScenarioContext _scenarioContext;

        public UserLoginSteps(ScenarioContext scenarioContext)
        {
            _scenarioContext = scenarioContext;
            _homePageUri = new Uri(HOME_PAGE_URL);
            _driver = new ChromeDriver(); // TODO: Add specific driver location if not in bin folder.
        }

        [Given(@"I am on the home page")]
        public void GivenIAmOnTheHomePage()
        {
            _driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(_homePageUri);
        }

        [When(@"I enter the username (.*)")]
        public void WhenIEnterTheUsernameUser(string username)
        {
            UsernameField().SendKeys(username);
        }

        [When(@"I enter the password (.*)")]
        public void WhenIEnterThePasswordPassword(string password)
        {
            PasswordField().SendKeys(password);
        }

        [When(@"I click login")]
        public void WhenIClickLogin()
        {
            LoginButton().Click();
        }

        [Then(@"I should be authenticated")]
        public void ThenIShouldBeAuthenticated()
        {
            var manageProfileImage = ManageProfileImage();

            Assert.That(manageProfileImage, Is.Not.Null); // TODO: Replace with your own test
        }

        [AfterScenario]
        public void AfterScenario()
        {
            LogoutOfSite();
        }

        private void LogoutOfSite()
        {
            MoveOverManageProfileImage();
            ManageProfileImage().Click();
            ProfileLogoutButton().Click();
        }

        private IWebElement ProfileLogoutButton()
        {
            return _driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div/main/nav/div/div[2]/ul/li[4]/div/a[3]"));
        }

        private void MoveOverManageProfileImage()
        {
            var clickNavbarProfileImage = new Actions(_driver);
            clickNavbarProfileImage.MoveToElement(ManageProfileImage());
            clickNavbarProfileImage.Build().Perform();
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _driver?.Dispose();
        }

        private IWebElement ManageProfileImage()
        {
            return _driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='navbarDropdownProfile']/img"));
        }

        private IWebElement LoginButton()
        {
            return _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#account > div:nth-child(7) > div > button"));
        }

        private IWebElement PasswordField()
        {
            return _driver.FindElement(By.Id("Input_Password"));
        }

        private IWebElement UsernameField()
        {
            return _driver.FindElement(By.Id("Input_Email"));
        }
    }

If you are looking to keep the Excel file still for data input, SpecFlow+ Excel would likely be the best choice to combine with the approach above, to allow you to continue using Excel files for the data: https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow-excel/en/latest/

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Sean

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[Anneline van der Merwe]

Thank you very much. If I have more question can I send you a mail?

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