Question

I have not been able to find the correct syntax to use in this scenario, can anyone help?

For examples of what I would like to do:

ieInUse.TextField(Find.ById("Blah")).TypeText("Zzz");   -- I'd like to replace the 'Zzz' with just a random string.

ieInUse.GoTo("http://randomwebsite/Description/11");  -- Replacing the 11 with a random 2 numbers

Answer 1

I do have some opinions on testing with non deterministic data, but I’ll keep them to myself as I don’t know the background 🙂

I don’t know of any built-in functionality for that, but you can easily add your own methods to do it;

    static string RandomString(int len)
    {
        var random = new Random();
        return new string(Enumerable.Range(1, len)
            .Select(_ => (char)(random.Next() % 95 + 33)).ToArray());
    }

    static string RandomDigits(int len)
    {
        var random = new Random();
        return new string(Enumerable.Range(1, len)
            .Select(_ => (char) (random.Next()%10 + '0')).ToArray());
    }

Then you can just do;

ieInUse.TextField(Find.ById("Blah")).TypeText(RandomString(7)); 
ieInUse.GoTo("http://randomwebsite/Description/" + RandomDigits(2));