I am trying to see, if possible, to have a more elegant way to handle calling nTh numbers from a Cucumber Scenario Outline that correlates to an excel spreadsheet row(nth).
Currently I am using iteration numbers to define the row # of the excel spread sheet to pull the data from. I wanted to see if it was possible to use cucumber with excel in a more elegant way than the below example with the scenario outline.
Some background:
- Each iteration needs to be its own scenario. Hence why I'm not using a simple for loop with row.count.
- I am fully aware of scenario outline as a way to do data tables but my company wants to see a POF that we can integrate large data sets through excel.
- Current setup works for small data sets but when we get into the large excel spreadsheets I do not want to type out nth numbers on the outline
Cucumber code:
Feature: User is using an excel spreadsheet with cucumber driving it
Scenario Outline: Data Driven with excel and data sets
When I am on the amps mainscreen
Then I input username and passwords with excel row"<row_index>" dataset
Examples:
| row_index |
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
| 4 |
Step File:
//Excel Steps
@When("^I am on the amps mainscreen$")
public void i_am_on_the_amps_mainscreen() {
System.out.println("Im loading");
}
//Excel Steps
@Then("^I input username and passwords with excel row\"([^\"]*)\" dataset$")
public void i_input_username_and_passwords_with_excel_row_dataset(int rownum) throws IOException {
login.readExcel(rownum);
}
Actual Code:
public void readExcel (int row) throws IOException{
File src=new File("src/test/resources/username.xlsx");
FileInputStream fis=new FileInputStream(src);
XSSFWorkbook srcBook= new XSSFWorkbook(fis);
XSSFSheet sourceSheet = srcBook.getSheetAt(0);
XSSFRow sourceRow = sourceSheet.getRow(row);
XSSFCell username=sourceRow.getCell(0);
XSSFCell password=sourceRow.getCell(1);
String userExcel = username.getStringCellValue();
String pwExcel = password.getStringCellValue();
System.out.println("The username is" +userExcel);
System.out.println("The password is" +pwExcel);
log.info("The username on " +row + " is: "+userExcel);
log.info("The password on "+row+ " is: "+pwExcel);
driver.findElement(txtbox_username).sendKeys(userExcel);
driver.findElement(txtbox_password).sendKeys(pwExcel);
driver.findElement(btn_logon).click();
}