PhantomJS, the Headless Browser for your .NET WebDriver Tests

Did you know that Selenium already supports PhantomJS?

WebDriver is a specification for controlling the behavior of a web browser. PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. Ghost Driver is a WebDriver implementation that uses PhantomJS for its back-end. Selenium is a software testing framework for web applications. Selenium WebDriver is the successor to Selenium RC. The Selenium WebDriver NuGet Package is a .NET client for for Selenium WebDriver that includes support for PhantomJs via GhostDriver.

NuGet Packages

You need only install two NuGet packages in order to use PhantomJS with WebDriver. You will probably also want which ever Unit Testing framework you prefer. As always, I suggest xUnit.

1. Selenium.WebDriver
2. phantomjs.exe

PhantomJSDriver

After installing those, using the PhantomJSDriver is as easy as any other WebDriver!

const string PhantomDirectory =

    @"..\..\..\packages\phantomjs.exe.1.8.1\tools\phantomjs";

[Fact]

public void GoogleTitle()

{

    using (IWebDriver phantomDriver = new PhantomJSDriver(PhantomDirectory))

    {

        phantomDriver.Url = "http://www.google.com/";

        Assert.Contains("Google", phantomDriver.Title);

    }

}

Enjoy,
Tom