Testing drag-and-drop with Selenium 2 on Telerik controls

Question

I need to automate drag and drop functionality with Telerik controls, I currently use WatiN for my automation (see related quesiton Testing drag-and-drop with Watin on Telerik controls . I am considering if WatiN can't do it, will I able to test drag and drop will if I change to use Selenium 2 instead.

Can this (drag and drop testing in a web applicaiton) be easily achieved with Selenium2 (in C#), ideally without injecting javascript into the application being teseted?

Answer 1

While I'm not certain if these mechanisms will specifically work with the Telerik controls (I know it works with jQuery), there are a couple of ways to do this. You can use IRenderedWebElement.DragAndDropOn(), but this method is deprecated. The newer way, which isn't available in a released binary form yet, but is checked into the source tree and will be released in the next binary, is to use the Actions class to create the drag-and-drop action. Your code would look something like the following:

public void DragAndDropExample()
{
    // driver is an instance of IWebDriver; 
    // elementToDrag and targetElement are instances of IWebElement
    Actions actionsProvider = new Actions(driver);
    actionsProvider.DragAndDrop(elementToDrag, targetElement).Perform();
}

You can also use the DragAndDropToOffset() method if you want to drag an element to an arbitrary screen location.