Csv Test Data

Purpose

• Test Data can be handled through Csv files

• Handling test data in an object allows for a simple way of adding, passing and modifying data associated with tests

• Example: user info data. User info can contain the basic username and password, however, this can grow as the project grows. Using data objects, allows additional of info such as "user id" to be added without changing the dynamics of the methods where user info is used

Create CSV FILE

• Add csv file to folder 'data' in the module

user.csv

• Code generator will pick up the csv files and generate data objects

Implementation

• To access the data from the csv files, use the following format

• Data.<module>.<csv file>().id()

• In the test call access the data

• User user = Data.webApp.user().admin()

• In this case, we have accessed the admin user in the user.csv file

• To access particular data

•  Data.webApp.user().admin().getUsername()

• to modify value

• User user = Data.webApp.user().admin().withUsername("user2")

Pass In As Parameter

• To use the CommonUser in the login action, we pass it the CommonUser as a parameter to the login method:

• 	public void login(CommonUser user) {
  		Helper.form.setField(elements.USER_NAME_FIELD, user.username);
  		Helper.form.setField(elements.PASSWORD_FIELD, user.password);
  	}

• To get a value from CommonUser, we use the following syntax: user.username

Create Data Object

• After the csv file has been created, we can use that csv data structure to create our own data objects

• To create a new user programmatically, we can initiate the object as follows

• User user = Data.webApp.user().withUsername("username").withPassword("password");