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Design a Test Automation Framework with Selenium and Java

Building Configuration Hierarchy and Overriding

Explore how to design and implement a configuration hierarchy for test automation frameworks. Understand the overriding process using default files, project-specific files, and JVM arguments to manage configurable parameters effectively.

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Configuration hierarchy overview #

  • The framework should bundle the default value for all the configurable parameters in a configuration file.
  • These default values should be overridable from a project-specific configuration file.
  • These project-specific configuration parameters should be overridable by passing as a JVM argument (i.e., -Dkey=value).

Designing the configuration manager #

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