How to work on Data Driven Framework in Selenium Using Apache POI?
Data Driven Framework is one of the most popular Automation Testing Frameworks in the current market. Data Driven automated testing is a method in which the test data set is created in the excel sheet, and is then imported into automation testing tools to feed to the software under test.
Selenium Webdriver is a great tool to automate web-based applications. However, it does not support read and write operations in excel files.
Therefore, we use third party APIs like Apache POI.
What you will learn in this tutorial:
- What is the data driven framework in Selenium WebDriver using excel example
- How to read and write data from an excel sheet in Selenium WebDriver using Apache POI
What is Apache POI?
Apache POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) is an API written in Java to support read and write operations – modifying office files. This is the most common API used for Selenium data driven tests.
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