Comparing Selenium Syntax in C# and Ruby

Clearly, Ruby Wins.

Apress will release my upcoming book, titled ‘Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, 3rd edition,’ in the coming months.

When I started learning programming, my father told me to be open-minded when comes to programming languages. He always encouraged me to try new ones. Before the opportunity to write this Selenium C# book, I hadn’t used C# before. Not a big deal, I just learnt it as I went. (I use Java at work, and prefer Ruby for scripting purposes)

This article provides a brief comparison of Selenium syntax in both C# and Ruby.

1. Some common operations in C# is long and complex

Taking waiting a fixed time (commonly used) for example,

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); // C#

sleep(0.5) # Ruby

2. C# needs to type extra () for some statements

In Visual Studio, the auto-complete sometimes is not right.

In this case, driver.Navigate.GoToUrl is wrong syntax. The correct one is driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(...) . But Navigate() takes no arguments, i.e., an extra set of parantheses () is needed to match the syntax.