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Learn Selenium

You're reading from   Learn Selenium Build data-driven test frameworks for mobile and web applications with Selenium Web Driver 3

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Product type Course
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983048
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright Contributors About Packt Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 2. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring the Features of WebDriver 4. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver 5. Understanding WebDriver Events 6. Exploring RemoteWebDriver 7. Setting up Selenium Grid 8. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG 9. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications 10. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 11. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 12. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 13. Building a JSON Data Provider 14. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 15. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 16. Designing a Selenium Grid 17. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 18. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples 1. Assessments 2. Other Books You May Enjoy

Confirmation and exception property files

In the preceding example, we extracted the username, password, and error message data from the JSON data file. But what if the username and password need to change dynamically based on the test environment being used? Would we really want to hardcode in the username and password for a test? What if the error message is used in 10 other places in the application? Would we really want to change that test message data 10 times if the message is changed in the application?

The answer is simple: probably not! So, in this section, let's start by talking about using property files to store confirmation and exception messages.

Property files

Using property files in development is fairly...

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