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  Selenese coffee beans 1) A recorded Selenium script for a simple scenario of googling for the term Tomato. This recording should have been saved as an export in C# format. 2) VS2010 express editors – for C# and Web dev 3) MS Excel 4) Browsers – Chrome, Firefox, IE 5) WebDriver for Google Chrome Prepare the Coffee Machine Let’s install NUnit extension, NuGet package manager, Selenium packages and include MS Excel Interop reference into VS2010. Essentially 2 different editors are required from the VS2010 stable: a) Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express – get NUnit b) Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express – to get NuGet and Selenium   Let’s get started with Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express – Invoke Extension Manager: Browse the Online Gallery and download NUnit Test Application: Install NUnit: Confirm that installation succeeded: and this page is displayed in your default browser: Choose to create a New Project: Select th...

(this is a follow-up post to this one:  http://sudiptopaul.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-aspnet-page-state-and-theme-to.html ) Traditionally Test Management and Test Automation tools have been remotely related to each other. Microsoft’s Test Manager changes this - Manual Testers contribute effectively by creating action recordings for each test Common portions of test steps can now be grouped into what is called as Shared Steps – again manual tester can create independent action recordings for these Test Manager enables these action recordings to serve as active inputs to test automation – separate class is created for each test case, and a reusable function for each shared step This is very elegant as it saves the test automation engineer an amount of time required to refactor common portions of longish test path recordings The Manual Tester gets to contribute in the Keyword definition phase – an important thing to do, because they are the subject matter experts! Here’...