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Published inJul 2018
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Pallavi Sharma
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Pallavi Sharma

Pallavi Sharma is a founder of 5 Elements Learning. She has 12 years professional experience. She has worked in varied roles as a product/project manager, in presales team, marketing team, and test automation coach in the software testing domain. Being an avid learner, she also likes to keep herself up to date with the latest trends and technologies. She is a firm believer that there is no shortcut to success.
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UNMESH GUNDECHA
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UNMESH GUNDECHA

Unmesh Gundecha has over 16 years, experience in Agile software development, test automation, and DevOps methodologies. He is an Agile, open source, and DevOps evangelist with extensive experience in a diverse set of tools and technologies. He has extensive hands-on experience in building sustainable and repeatable test automation solutions for web and mobile platforms, APIs, and CLI apps with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, using best-of-breed open source and commercial tools to do so. He is the author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook and Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, both by Packt Publishing.
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Satya Avasarala
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Satya Avasarala

Satya Avasarala has rich experience in Java development and automation testing. He is an engineer in computer science. He has used WebDriver for many years now and has created several good automation frameworks. He has worked at various large software enterprises such as Oracle Corp, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., and the REA Group. In addition, he is also interested in Service Oriented Architectural design and Business Intelligence. He is an Oracle-certified Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Expert and a Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Implementation Specialist.
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Overview of data-driven testing

By employing the data-driven testing approach, we can use a single test to verify different sets of test cases or test data by driving the test with input and expected values from an external data source instead of using the hardcoded values every time a test is run. This becomes useful when we have similar tests that consist of the same steps but differ in the input data and expected value or the application state. Here is an example of a set of login test cases with different combinations:

Description Test data Expected output
Test valid username and password A pair of valid usernames and passwords The user should log into the application with a success message
Test invalid username and password An invalid username and password The user should be displayed the login error
Valid username and invalid password A valid username and an invalid...
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Pallavi Sharma

Pallavi Sharma is a founder of 5 Elements Learning. She has 12 years professional experience. She has worked in varied roles as a product/project manager, in presales team, marketing team, and test automation coach in the software testing domain. Being an avid learner, she also likes to keep herself up to date with the latest trends and technologies. She is a firm believer that there is no shortcut to success.
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UNMESH GUNDECHA

Unmesh Gundecha has over 16 years, experience in Agile software development, test automation, and DevOps methodologies. He is an Agile, open source, and DevOps evangelist with extensive experience in a diverse set of tools and technologies. He has extensive hands-on experience in building sustainable and repeatable test automation solutions for web and mobile platforms, APIs, and CLI apps with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, using best-of-breed open source and commercial tools to do so. He is the author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook and Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, both by Packt Publishing.
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Satya Avasarala

Satya Avasarala has rich experience in Java development and automation testing. He is an engineer in computer science. He has used WebDriver for many years now and has created several good automation frameworks. He has worked at various large software enterprises such as Oracle Corp, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., and the REA Group. In addition, he is also interested in Service Oriented Architectural design and Business Intelligence. He is an Oracle-certified Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Expert and a Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Implementation Specialist.
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