Executing parallel tests in a Selenium keyword driven framework

Question

In a data-driven framework, we use Selenium along with TestNG to run multiple tests in parallel. How can the same be implemented in a keyword-driven framework?

In data-driven approach we can define every test case as a separate method and therefore we are able to command TestNG via annotations which methods to run and how many to run in parallel.

In keyword-driven approach, every test case is a separate Excel Sheet and multiple excel sheets in the same workbook make a test suite. How can these excel sheets/test cases be annotated/referred so as to run in parallel similar to the execution structure and process in data-driven framework?

One lame solution I thought of was a hybrid approach wherein creating methods which would call the excel sheet.

For eg.:

@Test
public void TestCase_001() {
       // Read the keyword driven test case
       // XLS_WorkbookName - The Excel Workbook or Test Suite containing multiple Test Cases
       // XLS_SheetName - The Excel Sheet containing set of rows each of which contains ID of element, Operation to be performed and data to be used
       ReadAndExecuteTestCase(XLS_WorkbookName_XYZ, XLS_SheetName_ABC);
}

@Test
public void TestCase_002() {
       // Read the keyword driven test case
       // XLS_WorkbookName - The Excel Workbook or Test Suite containing multiple Test Cases
       // XLS_SheetName - The Excel Sheet containing set of rows each of which contains ID of element, Operation to be performed and data to be used
       ReadAndExecuteTestCase(XLS_WorkbookName_ABC, XLS_SheetName_XYZ);
}

I'm not sure if they above example is the appropriate way to go about it. Requesting suggestions to the same. Thanks in advance.

niharika_neo niharika_neo · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-29T06:03:22

One solution can be :

Have a master sheet of cases to execute, which acts as your suite.
Have your dataprovider read this master sheet and have a single @Test method which takes in the arguments of the testcase data. This testcase basically reads the steps and executes - something like your ReadAnExecureTestCase method.
Make this dataprovider parallel and control using dataprovider thread count.

Executing parallel tests in a Selenium keyword driven framework

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