In Specflow, Step definitions are global. So a scenario can have multiple step definitions which can be present in different classes. Sometimes, there arise a need to share the data between steps residing in different classes. How do we do it?? There are multiple ways to do it Context Injection Feature Context Scenario Context Let us look into more details about how to store and retrieve data using Scenario Context . ...
I am not going to explain what is data driven framework or what is its benefits. All of them are pretty well-known . If not, just google it. Here I am going to explain a sample code which can be used to read from xml data files. This will be helpful to implement a data driven frame work for BDD testing , using Specflow or Cucumber Pre - requiste Code is written in Csharp . We need to add below reference to visual studio solution ...
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; }