There is a lot of confusion about hybrid frame work and how to implement it.Now there are multiple ways you can create Hybrid framework , one simple thing to remember while creating a hybrid framework is that it has the features of both data driven and keyword driven features.
Data Driven and Key word driven frameworks will not be discussed in this post, you have to have prior knowledge of the both in order to understand this particular post. Readers of this post must have working knowledge on Maven, TestNG and Selenium.
To get started I will give you a small idea of how our test subject look like.
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Lets assume that it has three pages Configure source , Group data , and Drill down.
Automating the subject includes clicking, selecting or interacting with the elements present on each page.
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The three pages has three java classes assigned to it .
1. Configuresource.java
2. Groupdata.java
3. Drilldown.java
We have created two TestNG test classes, which contains the different test scenarios for the three pages. The test classes.
1.Test1.java
2. Test2.java
we also have a Testdata.xlsx which looks something like this and contains the Object name, Object type,and data to be send or written in case we have any.The word Object here refers to elements present in a page.
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each of the pages contain few actions.Each action is represented by a function which interacts with an element present in the page.Lets say, the configure source has an element A , and it needs to be clicked , then we have a corresponding function called AClicker() which will click the element A.Here is the screen shot of configure source page.
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The test classes pass the respective propertyname and the propertyType from the excel like the following. (Refer to the test class screenshot above also)
The page class then calls the ElementsSelectorUtil class method to get the elements and passes the ObjectName, and Object Type as parameter.
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Here is how the code for ElementSelectorUtil looks like
package UtilityClasses;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
public class ElementSelectorUtil {
WebDriver driver;
public ElementSelectorUtil(WebDriver driver){
this.driver = driver;
}
// public WebElement perform(Properties p,String operation,String objectName,String objectType,String value) throws Exception
// {
//
// return driver.findElement(this.getObject(p,objectName,objectType));
//
// }
public WebElement FindElement(By by1)
{
WebElement E1=driver.findElement(by1);
return E1;
}
public List<WebElement> FindElements(By by1)
{
return driver.findElements(by1);
}
/**
* Find element BY using object type and value
* @param p
* @param objectName
* @param objectType
* @return
* @throws Exception
*/
public By getObject(String PropertyValue,String objectType) throws Exception{
//Find by xpath
if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("XPATH")){
return By.xpath(PropertyValue);
}
//find by class
else if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("CLASSNAME")){
return By.className(PropertyValue);
}
else if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("ID")){
return By.id(PropertyValue);
}
//find by name
else if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("NAME")){
return By.name(PropertyValue);
}
//Find by css
else if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("CSS")){
return By.cssSelector(PropertyValue);
}
//find by link
else if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("LINK")){
return By.linkText(PropertyValue);
}
//find by partial link
else if(objectType.equalsIgnoreCase("PARTIALLINK")){
return By.partialLinkText(PropertyValue);
}else
{
throw new Exception("Wrong object type");
}
}
}
The elementSelectorUtil returns the webElement and then you can click or send data to the element.
Below is the Entrire project structure of my project in Eclipse
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Below is the code for the Utility files
ExcelUtil.java----------
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package UtilityClasses;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;
public class ExcelUtil {
private XSSFSheet ExcelWSheet;
private XSSFWorkbook ExcelWBook;
FileInputStream ExcelFile;
StringBuilder ExcelPath=null;
// Constructor to connect to the Excel with sheetname and Path
public ExcelUtil(String Path, String SheetName){
try {
ExcelPath=new StringBuilder(Path);
// Open the Excel file
ExcelFile = new FileInputStream(new File(Path));
// Access the required test data sheet
ExcelWBook = new XSSFWorkbook(ExcelFile);
ExcelWSheet = ExcelWBook.getSheet(SheetName);
// ExcelWSheet.getRow(1).createCell(5).setCellValue("Pass");
// ExcelWSheet.getRow(2).createCell(5).setCellValue("Fail");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
// This method is to set the rowcount of the excel.
public int excel_get_rows() throws Exception {
try {
return ExcelWSheet.getPhysicalNumberOfRows();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
return 0;
}
public int excel_get_columns() throws Exception {
try {
return ExcelWSheet.getDefaultColumnWidth();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
return 0;
}
// This method to get the data and get the value as strings.
public String getCellDataasstring(int RowNum, int ColNum) throws Exception {
try {
String CellData = ExcelWSheet.getRow(RowNum).getCell(ColNum).getStringCellValue();
return CellData;
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("return 'Errors in Getting Cell Data'");
}
return null;
}
///// This method to get the data and get the value as number.
public double getCellDataasnumber(int RowNum, int ColNum) throws Exception {
try {
double CellData = ExcelWSheet.getRow(RowNum).getCell(ColNum).getNumericCellValue();
System.out.println("The value of CellData " + CellData);
return CellData;
} catch (Exception e) {
return 000.00;
}
}
public void ExcelWriter(int RowNum,int ColumnNo,String Data)
{ try {
ExcelWSheet.getRow(RowNum).createCell(ColumnNo).setCellValue(ExcelWBook.getCreationHelper().createRichTextString(Data));
FileOutputStream outFile = new FileOutputStream(ExcelPath.toString());
ExcelWBook.write(outFile);
outFile.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
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PropertyHanlder.java----
package UtilityClasses;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;
public class PropertyHandler {
Properties Selector=new Properties();
public String getPropertyValue(String ObjectName) throws IOException{
FileInputStream input=new FileInputStream("C:\\Users\\sayan.sikdar\\workspace\\Collabion2010\\Utilities\\UtilityProperties\\Object.properties");
Selector.load(input);
if(input!=null)
{
Selector.load(input);
}
else
{
new FileNotFoundException("Error is fetching properties file"+input);
}
return Selector.getProperty(ObjectName);
}
}
Here is the picture of the property object repository.
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