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I am working on a test automation framework using testNG, Selenium and Jenkins. The code is working fine, it reads one or more csv files and uses that as test data. I run the test from Jenkins.

package test;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.Iterator;

import java.util.List;



import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;

import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterSuite;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;

import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;

import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;



public class runTest {

private WebDriver myDriver = null;



    @BeforeTest

    public void openBrowser(){

        System.out.println("This test automation framework is created by --- for ---");

        //Set browser

        //System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C://Temp//chromedriver.exe");

        //System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "C://Temp//IEDriverServer.exe");



        //Instantiate new WebDriver object with browser of choice

        myDriver = new FirefoxDriver();

        //myDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

        //myDriver = new ChromeDriver();

        myDriver.get("http://localhost/tests/");

    }





    @Test (dataProvider="provideData")

    public void csvTest(String stepNr, String timeWaitMil, String waitForElement, String clickOnCssNameXpathLink, 

                        String valueInTextBox, String backspaceText, String assertReturnTrueFalse, 

                        String assertBy, String getUrl, 

                        String deleteCookie, String snapshot, String specialSnapshot){







        // Click on a something based on css, name xpath or link

        if (!"-".equals(clickOnCssNameXpathLink)){

            myDriver.findElement(By.name(clickOnCssNameXpathLink)).click();

        }



        // Enter value in textbox

        if (!"-".equals(valueInTextBox)){

            myDriver.findElement(By.name(clickOnCssNameXpathLink)).sendKeys(valueInTextBox);

        }





        // Delete cookies

        if (!"-".equals(deleteCookie)){

            myDriver.manage().deleteAllCookies();           

        }



        // Make snapshot of whole page

        if (snapshot.equalsIgnoreCase("true")){

            // take the screenshot of full page

            File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)myDriver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

            // prepare date to use in filename

            Date d = new Date();

            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH-mm-ss");

            // Save screenshot

            try {

                FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("c:\Temp\screenshots\full_page_" +dateFormat.format(d)+ ".png"));

            } catch (IOException e) {

                // TODO Auto-generated catch block

                e.printStackTrace();

                System.out.println("Could not make screenshot");

            }       

        }



    } 





    @DataProvider

    public Iterator<Object > provideData() throws InterruptedException, IOException

    {

        //Array with multiple csv's

        String csvFiles = {"C:/Users/---/Desktop/JES2.0/testingSelenium/testNG/data.csv", "C:/Users/---/Desktop/JES2.0/testingSelenium/testNG/data2.csv"};



        List<Object > testCases = new ArrayList<>();



        //loop through csv files

        for(String csvFile:csvFiles){

                String data= null;

                //read csv file

                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(csvFile));



                //Skip first line in the csv file, because that only contains the column names

                String line = br.readLine();



                //loop through csv and split parameters by comma sign ,

                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {

                    // use comma as separator

                    data= line.split(",");

                    testCases.add(data);

                }//end of while loop



            }// end of for loop

        return testCases.iterator();        

    }





    @AfterTest

    public void closeBrowser(){

        //close browser

        myDriver.quit();

    }



}

As you can see, the browser, the url and the CSV files are hardcoded. I want to be able to pass these as parameters. What is the best way to do this? Is it possible to pass them through Jenkins?

I am thinking of building a dashboard where I can specify what tests (csv files) to run using which browser.

This is the Jenkins batch command I am running

java -cp C:Users---DesktopJES2.0testingSeleniumtestNGlibsselenium-server-standalone-2.43.1.jar;C:Users---DesktopJES2.0testingSeleniumtestNGbin org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Jenkins have a built-in parameters handling, which is quite flexible in it's own way. But in this case, since you want to pass a filename as parameter, you can easily combine that functionality with a Filesystem List Parameter, which can build the list based on a regexp that will parse list of files.

If you use Maven or Ant, you can embed that parameter within your build process, in a form similar to this:

  <plugin>

        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

        <configuration>

            <systemPropertyVariables>

                <environment>${env.PARAM}</environment>

            </systemPropertyVariables>

            <suiteXmlFiles> 

                <suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>

            </suiteXmlFiles>

        </configuration>

    </plugin>

With this you can read the parameter that was passed on to Maven - in Jenkins using it's internal caller, and on command line with:

mvn install -Denv.PARAM=VALUE

So it should work either way...