Sending multiple arguments in Steps

When we talk about testing, data-driven testing is a very famous approach. Until now, we have focused on what our Steps intend to do. The questions that now come to mind are as follows:

• Can our Steps also send test data?
• What kind of test data can our Steps send?
• Can we send mixed data types in one single Step?

Put on a BA's shoes and let's write some Scenarios for the GitHub user registration page and login functionality.

How to do it…

We are going to update the login.feature file and add two Scenarios, where we are going to pass arguments in Steps:

Feature: login Page
  In order to test login page
  As a Registered user
  I want to specify the login conditions

  Scenario: New User Registration
    Given user is on Application landing page
    When user enters "ShankarGarg" in username field
    And user enters "[email protected]" in password field
    And user enters "123456" in password field
    And user clicks on Signup for GitHub button
    Then user is successfully registered

  Scenario: login
    Given user is on Application landing page
    And Sign in button is present on screen
    When user clicks on Sign in button
    Then user is displayed login screen
    When user enters "ShankarGarg" in username field
    And user enters "123456" in password field
    And user clicks Sign in button
    Then user is on home page
    And title of home page is "GitHub"

How it works…

In the preceding Feature file, focus on the text written in " ". This is our test data. The text mentioned in between " " in Steps is associated to Capture groups in Step Definition files.

An example of Step Definition for one of the Steps is:

@When("^user enters \"(.*?)\" in username field$")
  public void user_enters_in_username_field(String userName) {
      //print the value of data passed from Feature file
      System.out.println(userName);
  }

The output of the preceding System.out.println will be ShankarGarg (test data that we have passed in the Feature file).

Note

Now, since you have learned how to pass test data in Steps, try your hand at the following:

• Send String and integer data in the same Step.
• Send a List in a Step; for example: "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday".