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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

You're reading from   Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing Build data-driven test frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473576
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 3. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 4. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 5. Building a JSON Data Provider 6. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 7. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 8. Designing a Selenium Grid 9. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 10. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

Casting JSON data to Java objects

At this point, it would be good to recap some of the things we learned about designing JSON objects and how to use them in the test methods. Let's take each point separately and discuss.

JSON object

The JSON DataProvider designed earlier returns an array of objects. In simpler terms, we cast it at runtime to a JSONObject type when passed to the test methods. This JSONObject can then be used in any way the user wants—passing it to a Java object of a specific type, passing it to the Java builder class interface, assigning to local variables in the test method, and so on.

The main goal is to extract the data from the JSON file, convert it on the fly, and pass it into page object methods...

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