Data Driven Frame Work

Data Driven Frame Work

     One of the widely used frame work  .
   
     In this frame work the whole automation process is driven by data( saved in excel,word doc or Data base)
 
     In the link below

    Key Word Driven Framework , i had explained how the key word driven frame work works

Please find the image below which is self explanatory

In the above image we are using 2 Excel sheet

1. Driver sheet : Which drives the whole automation
2. Data Sheet : Which provides the input to the modules

Driver sheet

Name itself tells it drives the whole automation . In the above Sheet we have 2 coloumns

Module name and ExecuteFlag

Module name = Specifies the name of the module to run or name or the test case

Execute Flag =  Specifies whether the Module to be run or not ( if the value is "Y" execute the corresponding code else skip it )


Complete flow 


Let us see with an example the

We have 3 rows inside the Driver sheet , as per the above description only code related to LoginMail and SendMail as to be execute .

Steps

1.  main() Method reads the Driver sheet
2. Checks for Execute Flag for "Y" , if its Y , it captures the Module name 
3. Checks with the case statement and compare with the case values , if anything is matched , it has to execute the corresponding code , Here comes the Data Sheet , This sheet can be used to give the input for the modules (in the above example we can see LoginName and Pwd required for logining in )
4. Repeat the above steps until no rows in Driver sheet