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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

Web technologies are becoming increasingly complex and there is a need to test your web applications against a vast number of browsers and platforms, so you need to build highly reliable and maintainable test automation. This book will help you test your web applications effectively and efficiently with Selenium WebDriver."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use advanced features of Selenium WebDriver API in various situations for building reliable test automation. You will learn how to effectively use features of Selenium using simple and detailed examples. This book will also teach you best practices, design patterns, and how to extend Selenium."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" shows developers and testers who already use Selenium, how to go to the next step and build a highly maintainable and reliable test framework using advanced features of the tool.The book starts with tips on advanced location strategy and effective use of Selenium WebDriver API. Then it demonstrates the use of design patterns such as Data Driven Tests and PageFactory for building maintainable test automation. It also explains extending Selenium WebDriver API along with implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel.It concludes with tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools, testing mobile web applications, and capturing videos of test runs. This books provides examples in Java, C#, Ruby, and Python."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" will help you in building a highly robust and maintainable test automation framework from start to finish.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reading test data from a CSV file using JUnit


We saw a simple data-driven test using JUnit and TestNG. The test data was hardcoded in test script code. This could become difficult to maintain. It is recommended that we store the test data separately from the test scripts.

Often we use data from the production environment for testing. This data can be exported in CSV format. We can read CSV files using Java IO and utility classes and can pass the data from these files to the test code.

In this recipe, we will read data from a CSV file and use this data to execute the test script.

Getting ready

  • Set up a new project and add JUnit4 to the project's build path. You can set up the project in an IDE of your choice.

  • Create the CSV file with the required data.

How to do it...

Let's implement a parameterized test with CSV, using the following steps:

  1. Create a test class with the name CsvTestData. Make it a parameterized class by adding the @RunWith attribute.

    import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver...