Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition

CHAPTER 15

Test Data

Gathering test data is an important but often neglected activity. With the power of C# programming, testers now have a new ability to prepare test data.

Get date dynamically

// assume today is 2014-12-29String todaysDate = DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy");Console.WriteLine("todaysDate = " + todaysDate);driver.FindElement(By.Name("username")).SendKeys(todaysDate); //=>12/29/2014

A more flexible way is to write some helper functions to return common dates.

Today("dd/MM/yyyy"); // => 29/12/2014Tomorrow("AUS");     // => 30/12/2014Yesterday("ISO");    // => 2014-12-28public static String GetDate(String format, int dateDiff) ...