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Read the browser name from a pipeline variable

Learn how to create the BROWSER environment variable for the tests using a pipeline variable.

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It is not efficient to have the browser name hard-coded in the pipeline YAML code as follows:

YAML
 - task: Bash@3
   inputs:
      targetType: 'inline'
      script: 'export BROWSER=chrome'

Hard-coding the value in the YAML code means that we will have to change the code when we decide to run the tests on a different browser such as Firefox or Edge.

Instead, we should create a pipeline variable and use its value for the environment variable.

Create the pipeline variable

  1. In the pipeline ...