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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

5 (1)
By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

This book is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use the advanced features of the Selenium toolset including the WebDriver API in various situations to build a reliable test automation. You start off by setting up the test development environment and gain tips on the advanced locater strategy and the effective use of the Selenium WebDriver API. After that, the use of design patterns such as data - driven tests and PageFactory are demonstrated. You will then be familiarised with extending Selenium WebDriver API by implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel for cross-browser testing. Finally, we give you some tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools and testing mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to solve complex testing issues on your own.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Reading test data from an Excel file using JUnit and Apache POI


To maintain test cases and test data, Microsoft Excel is the favorite tool used by testers. Compared to the CSV file format, Excel gives numerous features and a structured way to store data. A tester can create and maintain tables of test data in an Excel spreadsheet easily.

In this recipe, we will use an Excel spreadsheet as your data source. We will use the Apache POI API, developed by the Apache Foundation, to manipulate the Excel spreadsheet. This recipe also implements some negative test handling.

Getting ready

To begin, follow these steps:

  • Add OpenCSV dependency to the Maven pom.xml file:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.opencsv</groupId>
      <artifactId>opencsv</artifactId>
      <version>3.4</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  • Prepare an Excel spreadsheet with the required data

We will also need a SpreadsheetData helper class to read the Excel spreadsheets. This is...