The type or namespace name 'IWebDriver' could not be found error while executing Nunit test through Selenium on Visual Studio 2017

Question

I am trying to create some test cases with selenium on a mac with C#. The IDE I am using is visual studio 2017. I have the following packages installed , selenium web driver, se

Answer 1

Referring to a few previous posts it seems if you are using Selenium-WebDriver through frameworks like Visual Studio 2017, nunittestadapter, NUnit.Framework, VS 2017 using the NuGet Manager sometimes there can be issues with the installation /configuration.

Example: SelectElement Class

As per the documentation the SelectElement Class is pretty much available within OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI Namespace which provides a convenience method for manipulating selections of options in an HTML select element.

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Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
    OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement

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Namespace: OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI

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Assembly: WebDriver.Support (in WebDriver.Support.dll) Version: 3.1.0

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Syntax: public class SelectElement : IWrapsElement

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Solution

Uninstall & reinstall the Selenium.Webdriver and Selenium.Support packages, that will surely fix the problem.

Reference

You can find relevant discussions in

• Cannot find WebDriverWait class in OpenQa Selenium 3.7
• The type or namespace SelectElement could not be found in selenium c#