In previous blog post, I have explained about how use XML for making a data driven framework for automation testing . It can be found here. I have also written about how to use jxl library for reading from excel and writing into Excel.

Below is another code snippet to read all values of a row and save it into a hash map for accessing later during automation test.

public  HashMap GetAllDataForARow  (String sheet, int Row){
        HashMap DataMap = new HashMap();
        try {
            Workbook wrk1 =  Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(dataPath));

            //Obtain the reference to the first sheet in the workbook
            Sheet sheet1 = wrk1.getSheet(sheet);
            int x =0;


            Cell colArow1 , colArow2;
            do {
                colArow1 = sheet1.getCell(x,0);
                colArow2 = sheet1.getCell(x,Row);
                DataMap.put(colArow1.getContents(), colArow2.getContents());
                x=x+1;
            }while (colArow1.getContents() != "");

        }

        catch (BiffException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e){
        }
        return DataMap;

    }