Question

Let’s say we have the following list in an HTML document:

<ul id="menu">
  <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="/Page">Page</a></li>
</ul>

How do I verify with WatiN that “menu” contains exactly those hyperlinks, in a concise manner?

Answer 1

I ended up with this solution, it was the best I could think of:

private static void CheckMenu(string title)
{
    Browser browser = WebBrowser.Current;

    // Verify menu
    WatiN.Core.List menu = browser.List("menu");
    var links = menu.OwnListItems.Select(item => item.Links[0]).ToList();
    Assert.That(links.Count, Is.EqualTo(2));
    CheckLink(links[0], "/", "Home");
    CheckLink(links[1], "/Page", "Page");
}

private static void CheckLink(Link link, string path, string text)
{
    // The href value is translated to an absolute URL, gah :/
    Assert.That(link.GetAttributeValue("href"), Is.StringMatching(
                string.Format("[^:]+://[^/]+{0}", path)));
    Assert.That(link.Text, Is.EqualTo(text));
}

Basically, I verify that there are two list items, and that they contain a link “Home” pointing to “/” and a link “Page” pointing to “/Page”.