Issues on automating MSD365 with selenium - selenium

Question

I tried to automate Dynamics365 using Selenium, but facing a lot of issues like
Used 'Id' as element locator, but it keeps changing on different instances
Element locator 'Name' is not working in all instances
Xpath came with appending 'id', so it is also dynamic
Due to all these i cant able to run the code in IE,but the code is working in Chrome.
Can someone help with the issue?

Answer 1

I recommend you look into using EasyRepro. It is a C# project from MS in Github that is built on top of Selenium and is a framework that lets you focus on writing meaningful tests instead of learning Selenium and the complicated DOM in D365. It allows you refer to the form objects by the schema name. When you download the project, it is loaded with tons of great examples that you can run to test all different forms and you can modify them to meet your needs.
For example, you can test creating a contact using easy code like this:
xrmBrowser.LoginPage.Login(_xrmUri, _username, _password);
xrmBrowser.GuidedHelp.CloseGuidedHelp();
xrmBrowser.ThinkTime(500);
xrmBrowser.Navigation.OpenSubArea("Sales", "Contacts");
xrmBrowser.ThinkTime(1000);
xrmBrowser.Grid.SwitchView("Active Contacts");
xrmBrowser.ThinkTime(2000);
xrmBrowser.CommandBar.ClickCommand("New");
xrmBrowser.ThinkTime(5000);
var fields = new List<Field>
{
new Field() {Id = "firstname", Value = "Test"},
new Field() {Id = "lastname", Value = "Contact"}
};
xrmBrowser.Entity.SetValue(new CompositeControl() { Id = "fullname", Fields = fields});
xrmBrowser.Entity.SetValue("emailaddress1", "test#contoso.com");
xrmBrowser.Entity.SetValue("mobilephone", "555-555-5555");
xrmBrowser.Entity.SetValue("birthdate", DateTime.Parse("11/1/1980"));
xrmBrowser.Entity.SetValue(new OptionSet { Name = "preferredcontactmethodcode", Value = "Email"});
xrmBrowser.CommandBar.ClickCommand("Save");