Selenium is now supported in .Net Core 2.0 Preview 2 with Visual Studio 2017 15.3

In this article we will talk about running Selenium test with .Net core 2.0 Preview 2 using Visual Studio 2017 15.3 I am very happy and excited to write this article, since many of automation testers like you and me were waiting for this news and its finally happening ! Here is the System Requirement for running Selenium with .Net core

1. Download .Net Core 2.0 Preview 2
2. Download Visual Studio 2017 15.3

Once installed, you need to follow following steps

Step 1

Create new Unit Test Project for .Net Core

Step 2

Add following Nuget references to the project

And it looks something like this

Step 3

Finally write the following code and its available GitHub here

    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
            IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(@"C:\Users\Karthik\source\repos\SeleniumWithCore2\SeleniumWithCore2\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\");
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://executeautomation.com");
            Console.WriteLine("Test Completed !!!");
        }
    }

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