HOW TO PERFORM DATA DRIVEN USING EXCEL FILE (.XLS) IN SELENIUM WEBDRIVER ?

We can perform data driven using excel file with help of Apache POI library.
Here is the very basic program to perform data driven from excel file using Apache POI library.

Create a testdata.xls file in the C drive with following details:

Search Text

hello selenium

abhishek yadav qa

Use below code to perform data driven from excel file:

Java Source code:

package com.helloselenium.selenium.test;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class DataDrivenUsingExcelFile{

 public static void main(String[] args) { 

        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.get("http://www.google.com");

        driver.manage().window().maximize();  
      
        WebElement searchbox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

 try {
   
  FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\testdata.xls")); 
  HSSFWorkbook workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(file);

  HSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

for (int i=1; i <= sheet.getLastRowNum(); i++){

        String keyword = sheet.getRow(i).getCell(0).getStringCellValue();

        searchbox.sendKeys(keyword);

        searchbox.submit();       
 
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

}

  workbook.close();
  file.close();

 } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
  fnfe.printStackTrace();
 } catch (IOException ioe) {
  ioe.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
}

Detailed explanation for the above program is as follows:

Following code is the required packages for JAVA IO to make integration with excel file and Timeunit.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

Following code is the required packages for Apache POI library.

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.*;

Following code is the required packages for Selenium.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

Following code is to initialize the Firefox driver.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

Following code is to open the hello selenium blog in browser.

driver.get("http://www.google.com");

You can also use the following code is to open the hello selenium blog in browser.

driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

Following code is to maximize the Firefox Driver instance.

driver.manage().window().maximize();

Following code is to store WebElement into a variable.

WebElement searchbox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

Following code is to locate the path of excel file.

FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\testdata.xls"));

Following code is to initialize the excel file as a workbook.

HSSFWorkbook workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(file);

Following code is to initialize the excel sheet of the workbook. Here 0 (zero) refers to the first sheet of the workbook.

HSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

Following code is to run the loop till it found cell value of last row.

for (int i=1; i <= sheet.getLastRowNum(); i++){

Following code is to get the keyword value from the worksheet.

String keyword = sheet.getRow(i).getCell(0).getStringCellValue();

Following code is to type the keyword into search textbox.

searchbox.sendKeys(keyword);

Following code is to press RETURN within textbox.

searchbox.submit();

Following code is wait for 10 seconds.

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

You can also use the following code is to close the excel file.

workbook.close();
file.close();