Selenium Data Driven | Properties File

The Properties file lets you store the keywords for data driven tests. Here, the Properties file acts as a data-source; it is used to handle small data files.

1| Open Eclipse IDE
2| Expand the project you are working
3| Right click on the src folder
4| New > Other... > General > File
5| Name the file with extension .properties. e.g., config.properties
6| Copy & paste the following and replace the keywords

search=keyword1,keyword2,keyword3

7| Save the properties file now.

Snippet

import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

driver = new FirefoxDriver();
baseUrl = "http://xyz.com";

ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("config");
String Channel = bundle.getString("search");
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(Channel, ",");
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
String value = st.nextToken();
driver.get(baseUrl + "/");
driver.findElement(By.id("")).click();
driver.findElement(By.id("")).sendKeys(value);
}


Alternate way to fetch Properties file

#Example1
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://xyz.com/");
FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream("C:\\config.properties");
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.load(fs);

String value = prop.getProperty("search");
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("search"));
driver.findElement(By.id("")).click();
driver.findElement(By.id("")).sendKeys(value);


#Example2
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://xyz.com/");
FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream("C:\\config.properties");
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.load(fs);

System.out.println(prop.getProperty("path"));
String dd = prop.getProperty("search");
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("search"));
driver.findElement(By.id(prop.getProperty("path"))).click();
driver.findElement(By.id("")).sendKeys(dd);

Let the config.properties File be
path=//*[@id=’clickme’]
search=keyword1