playwright/docs/src/writing-tests-csharp.md

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writing-tests Writing tests

Introduction

Playwright assertions are created specifically for the dynamic web. Checks are automatically retried until the necessary conditions are met. Playwright comes with auto-wait built in meaning it waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. Playwright provides the Expect function to write assertions.

Take a look at the example test below to see how to write a test using using locators and web first assertions.

<Tabs groupId="test-runners" defaultValue="nunit" values={[ {label: 'NUnit', value: 'nunit'}, {label: 'MSTest', value: 'mstest'} ] }>

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using Microsoft.Playwright.NUnit;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace PlaywrightTests;

[Parallelizable(ParallelScope.Self)]
[TestFixture]
public class Tests : PageTest
{
    [Test]
    public async Task HomepageHasPlaywrightInTitleAndGetStartedLinkLinkingtoTheIntroPage()
    {
        await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");

        // Expect a title "to contain" a substring.
        await Expect(Page).ToHaveTitleAsync(new Regex("Playwright"));

        // create a locator
        var getStarted = Page.GetByRole(AriaRole.Link, new() { Name = "Get started" });

        // Expect an attribute "to be strictly equal" to the value.
        await Expect(getStarted).ToHaveAttributeAsync("href", "/docs/intro");

        // Click the get started link.
        await getStarted.ClickAsync();

        // Expects page to have a heading with the name of Installation.
        await Expect(Page
            .GetByRole(AriaRole.Heading, new() { Name = "Installation" }))
            .ToBeVisibleAsync();
    }
}
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using Microsoft.Playwright.MSTest;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace PlaywrightTests;

[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1 : PageTest
{
    [TestMethod]
    public async Task HomepageHasPlaywrightInTitleAndGetStartedLinkLinkingtoTheIntroPage()
    {
        await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");

        // Expect a title "to contain" a substring.
        await Expect(Page).ToHaveTitleAsync(new Regex("Playwright"));

        // create a locator
        var getStarted = Page.GetByRole(AriaRole.Link, new() { Name = "Get started" });

        // Expect an attribute "to be strictly equal" to the value.
        await Expect(getStarted).ToHaveAttributeAsync("href", "/docs/intro");

        // Click the get started link.
        await getStarted.ClickAsync();

        // Expects the URL to contain intro.
        await Expect(Page).ToHaveURLAsync(new Regex(".*intro"));
    }
}

Assertions

Playwright provides an async function called Expect to assert and wait until the expected condition is met.

await Expect(Page).ToHaveTitleAsync(new Regex("Playwright"));

Locators

Locators are the central piece of Playwright's auto-waiting and retry-ability. Locators represent a way to find element(s) on the page at any moment and are used to perform actions on elements such as .ClickAsync .FillAsync etc.

var getStarted = Page.GetByRole(AriaRole.Link, new() { Name = "Get started" });

await Expect(getStarted).ToHaveAttributeAsync("href", "/docs/installation");
await getStarted.ClickAsync();

Test Isolation

The Playwright NUnit and MSTest test framework base classes will isolate each test from each other by providing a separate Page instance. Pages are isolated between tests due to the Browser Context, which is equivalent to a brand new browser profile, where every test gets a fresh environment, even when multiple tests run in a single Browser.

<Tabs groupId="test-runners" defaultValue="nunit" values={[ {label: 'NUnit', value: 'nunit'}, {label: 'MSTest', value: 'mstest'} ] }>

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Playwright.NUnit;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace PlaywrightTests;

[Parallelizable(ParallelScope.Self)]
[TestFixture]
public class Tests : PageTest
{
    [Test]
    public async Task BasicTest()
    {
        await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");
    }
}
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Playwright.MSTest;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace PlaywrightTests;

[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1 : PageTest
{
    [TestMethod]
    public async Task BasicTest()
    {
        await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");
    }
}

Using Test Hooks

You can use SetUp/TearDown in NUnit or TestInitialize/TestCleanup in MSTest to prepare and clean up your test environment:

<Tabs groupId="test-runners" defaultValue="nunit" values={[ {label: 'NUnit', value: 'nunit'}, {label: 'MSTest', value: 'mstest'} ] }>

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Playwright.NUnit;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace PlaywrightTests;

[Parallelizable(ParallelScope.Self)]
[TestFixture]
public class Tests : PageTest
{
    [Test]
    public async Task MainNavigation()
    {
        // Assertions use the expect API.
        await Expect(Page).ToHaveURLAsync("https://playwright.dev/");
    }

    [SetUp]
    public async Task SetUp()
    {
        await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");
    }
}
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Playwright.MSTest;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace PlaywrightTests;

[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1 : PageTest
{
    [TestMethod]
    public async Task MainNavigation()
    {
        // Assertions use the expect API.
        await Expect(Page).ToHaveURLAsync("https://playwright.dev/");
    }

    [TestInitialize]
    public async Task TestInitialize()
    {
        await Page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev");
    }
}

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