Are you an engineer looking to make a difference? Are you interested in contributing to Selenium WebDriver C#, the most widely used web automation tool on the market? Well, you’re in luck! Not only is this a great way to give back to the open source community and hone your coding skills, it also provides invaluable experience that could be useful for future projects. In this blog post, we’ll go over how you can get up and running as quickly as possible with contributing to Selenium WebDriver C#. Ready? Let’s dive right in!
Run this command to install Bazel, the build tool of SeleniumHQ
brew tap bazelbuild/tap && brew uninstall bazel; brew install bazelbuild/tap/bazelisk
Now to clone and build the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium && cd selenium && bazel build //dotnet/test/common:chrome
The building will take a few minutes; go grab a coffee. My final output looked like this
DEBUG: /private/var/tmp/_bazel_nikolay/41c40222d2b41b8805f6b84a588df484/external/rules_python/python/pip.bzl:47:10: pip_install is deprecated. Please switch to pip_parse. pip_install will be removed in a future release. INFO: Analyzed target //dotnet/test/common:chrome (0 packages loaded, 0 targets configured). INFO: Found 1 target... Target //dotnet/test/common:chrome up-to-date: bazel-bin/dotnet/test/common/bazelout/netcoreapp3.1/WebDriver.Common.Tests.dll.exe bazel-bin/dotnet/test/common/bazelout/netcoreapp3.1/WebDriver.Common.Tests.dll.ref.exe bazel-bin/dotnet/test/common/bazelout/netcoreapp3.1/WebDriver.Common.Tests.dll.pdb bazel-bin/dotnet/test/common/bazelout/netcoreapp3.1/WebDriver.Common.Tests.dll.exe.sh INFO: Elapsed time: 0.792s, Critical Path: 0.09s INFO: 1 process: 1 internal. INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action SL-1840:dotnet nikolay$
Once built, run your tests
dotnet test
That’s it, enjoy helping the open-source community. Huge thanks to my friend Titus Fortner for helping me with this.
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