diff --git a/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/AspNetProcess.cs b/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/AspNetProcess.cs
index 705f009ef8..44127dad19 100644
--- a/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/AspNetProcess.cs
+++ b/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/AspNetProcess.cs
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-using System;
+using OpenQA.Selenium;
+using OpenQA.Selenium.Edge;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Net;
 using System.Net.Http;
-using System.Threading;
+using System.Reflection;
 using Xunit;
 
 namespace Templates.Test.Helpers
@@ -53,13 +55,13 @@ namespace Templates.Test.Helpers
             _listeningUri = new Uri(listeningUrlString, UriKind.Absolute);
         }
 
-        internal void AssertOk(string requestUrl)
+        public void AssertOk(string requestUrl)
             => AssertStatusCode(requestUrl, HttpStatusCode.OK);
 
-        internal void AssertNotFound(string requestUrl)
+        public void AssertNotFound(string requestUrl)
             => AssertStatusCode(requestUrl, HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
 
-        internal void AssertStatusCode(string requestUrl, HttpStatusCode statusCode)
+        public void AssertStatusCode(string requestUrl, HttpStatusCode statusCode)
         {
             var request = new HttpRequestMessage(
                 HttpMethod.Get,
@@ -69,6 +71,14 @@ namespace Templates.Test.Helpers
             Assert.Equal(statusCode, response.StatusCode);
         }
 
+        public IWebDriver VisitInBrowser()
+        {
+            var driver = new EdgeDriver(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location));
+            driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1);
+            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(_listeningUri);
+            return driver;
+        }
+
         public void Dispose()
         {
             _httpClient.Dispose();
diff --git a/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/WebDriverExtensions.cs b/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/WebDriverExtensions.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..04ec47b1ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Templates.Test/Helpers/WebDriverExtensions.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+using OpenQA.Selenium;
+using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;
+using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
+using System;
+
+namespace Templates.Test.Helpers
+{
+    public static class WebDriverExtensions
+    {
+        public static string GetText(this ISearchContext driver, string cssSelector)
+        {
+            return driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(cssSelector)).Text;
+        }
+
+        public static void Click(this IWebDriver driver, By by)
+        {
+            Click(driver, null, by);
+        }
+
+        public static void Click(this IWebDriver driver, ISearchContext searchContext, By by)
+        {
+            // This elaborate way of clicking is a workaround for https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/5238133/
+            new Actions(driver)
+                .MoveToElement((searchContext ?? driver).FindElement(by))
+                .Click()
+                .Perform();
+        }
+
+        public static void Click(this IWebDriver driver, string cssSelector)
+        {
+            Click(driver, null, cssSelector);
+        }
+
+        public static void Click(this IWebDriver driver, ISearchContext searchContext, string cssSelector)
+        {
+            Click(driver, searchContext, By.CssSelector(cssSelector));
+        }
+
+        public static IWebElement FindElement(this ISearchContext searchContext, string cssSelector)
+        {
+            return searchContext.FindElement(By.CssSelector(cssSelector));
+        }
+
+        public static IWebElement Parent(this IWebElement webElement)
+        {
+            return webElement.FindElement(By.XPath(".."));
+        }
+
+        public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, string cssSelector, int timeoutSeconds)
+        {
+            return FindElement(driver, null, cssSelector, timeoutSeconds);
+        }
+
+        public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, ISearchContext searchContext, string cssSelector, int timeoutSeconds)
+        {
+            return FindElement(driver, searchContext, By.CssSelector(cssSelector), timeoutSeconds);
+        }
+
+        public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutSeconds)
+        {
+            return FindElement(driver, null, by, timeoutSeconds);
+        }
+
+        public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, ISearchContext searchContext, By by, int timeoutSeconds)
+        {
+            return new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutSeconds))
+                .Until(drv => searchContext.FindElement(by));
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/test/Templates.Test/SpaTemplateTest.cs b/test/Templates.Test/SpaTemplateTest.cs
index 9246961723..e35305b456 100644
--- a/test/Templates.Test/SpaTemplateTest.cs
+++ b/test/Templates.Test/SpaTemplateTest.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-using Xunit;
+using OpenQA.Selenium;
+using Templates.Test.Helpers;
+using Xunit;
 
 namespace Templates.Test
 {
@@ -22,7 +24,40 @@ namespace Templates.Test
             using (var aspNetProcess = StartAspNetProcess(targetFrameworkOverride))
             {
                 aspNetProcess.AssertOk("/");
+
+                using (var browser = aspNetProcess.VisitInBrowser())
+                {
+                    TestBasicNavigation(browser);
+                }
             }
         }
+
+        private void TestBasicNavigation(IWebDriver browser)
+        {
+            // <title> element gets project ID injected into it during template execution
+            Assert.Contains(ProjectName, browser.Title);
+
+            // Initially displays the home page
+            Assert.Equal("Hello, world!", browser.GetText("h1"));
+
+            // Can navigate to the counter page
+            browser.Click(By.PartialLinkText("Counter"));
+            Assert.Equal("Counter", browser.GetText("h1"));
+
+            // Clicking the counter button works
+            var counterComponent = browser.FindElement("h1").Parent();
+            Assert.Equal("0", counterComponent.GetText("strong"));
+            browser.Click(counterComponent, "button");
+            Assert.Equal("1", counterComponent.GetText("strong"));
+
+            // Can navigate to the 'fetch data' page
+            browser.Click(By.PartialLinkText("Fetch data"));
+            Assert.Equal("Weather forecast", browser.GetText("h1"));
+
+            // Loads and displays the table of weather forecasts
+            var fetchDataComponent = browser.FindElement("h1").Parent();
+            var table = browser.FindElement(fetchDataComponent, "table", 5);
+            Assert.Equal(5, table.FindElements(By.CssSelector("tbody tr")).Count);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/Templates.Test/Templates.Test.csproj b/test/Templates.Test/Templates.Test.csproj
index 6366d9d7b6..c3464e99a8 100644
--- a/test/Templates.Test/Templates.Test.csproj
+++ b/test/Templates.Test/Templates.Test.csproj
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="System.Security.Permissions" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" />
     <PackageReference Include="Internal.AspNetCore.Sdk" PrivateAssets="All" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Selenium.WebDriver.MicrosoftDriver" Version="15.15063.0" NoWarn="KRB4002" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Selenium.Support" Version="3.4.0"  NoWarn="NU1701" />
+    <PackageReference Include="Selenium.WebDriver" Version="3.4.0" NoWarn="NU1701" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit.analyzers" />
     <PackageReference Include="xunit.runner.visualstudio" />