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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999762
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Satya Avasarala Satya Avasarala
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Pallavi Sharma Pallavi Sharma
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements FREE CHAPTER 2. Different Available WebDrivers 3. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium 4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver 5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver 6. Understanding WebDriver Events 7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver 8. Setting up Selenium Grid 9. The PageObject Pattern 10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium 11. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Parameterizing Tests with a Data Provider

While suite parameters are useful for simple parameterization, they are not sufficient for creating data-driven tests with multiple test data values and reading data from external files, such as property files, CSV, Excel, or databases. In this case, we can use a Data Provider to supply the values need to test. A Data Provider is a method defined in the test class that returns an array of array of objects. This method is annotated with the @DataProvider annotation.

Let's modify the preceding test to use the Data Provider. Instead of using a single searchWord, we will now use three combinations of searchWords and expected items counts returned by the search. We will add a new method, named provider(), in the SearchTest class, as shown in following code, before the @BeforeMethod annotation:

public class SearchTest {

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