Using Command Line Arguments in C# Unit Testing

Question

I'm running C# unit tests to run selenium tests and in this I need to sign into different user accounts. I'm trying retrieve the username and password as command line arguments but cannot find a way to do this in C# visual studio unit tests.

Does anyone know how I could do this?

Part of my code:

[TestMethod]
public void Login()
    {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
        driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(this.baseURL);    
        driver.FindElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_UserName").SendKeys(userID);
        driver.FindElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_Password").SendKeys(password);
        driver.FindElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_LoginButton").Click();
    }

Here the "userID" and the "password should be my command line arguments.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

In a unit test you should not use variable input from the command line but have it be constant.

For example your test should be:

[TestMethod]
public void Login()
{
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(this.baseURL);
    driver
        .FindElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_UserName")
        .SendKeys("testuser");
    driver
        .FindElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_Password")
        .SendKeys("testpass");
    driver
        .FindElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Login1_LoginButton")
        .Click();
}

You should then ensure that the database is properly mocked or initialized with the correct state before the test is run.