Exercise 0 - Setting up the environment

Setting up the development environment in Windows

• How to install the software and tools used in these exercises
• How to configure your your browsers running for running automation

Install software and tools

Installing a package manager Chocolatey and Boxstarter then installing a free IDE Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition

1. From the start menu, open a Powershell window as Admin
2. Check the version of $PSVersionTable.PSVersion it should be version 3+
3. Run the following command iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex to install Chocolatey
4. Run the following command choco install visualstudio2017community -y --allow-empty-checksums to install Visual Studio 2017
5. From the start menu, open Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition and confirm its installed
6. Install Boxstarter

Configure IE

Configure IE

1. From the start menu, open a Powershell window as Admin

Summary

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