One of the really cool features of gwen-web is the ability to load in different parameters at run time. This allows you to run gwen-web against multiple environments without changing either the feature or the meta files.
Lets take one of the examples with gwen-web and flood.io Below are two examples of how one could set the value. The first example sets “the how old are you dropdown” to 21, the second example uses a property, in this case different files for two different environments to set the value.
Lets define how the dropdown can be found in the meta first.
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And the heading should be “Step 2”
And the how old are you dropdown can be located by id “challenger_age”
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When I select “21” in the how old are you dropdown
Now with the properties approach. Lets create two files, DEV.properties and SIT.properties. The contents of the two files are below:
user.age=44
user.age=21
In addition we need to make a small modification to both the feature and the meta files
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And the heading should be “Step 2”
And my age is defined by property “user.age”
And the how old are you dropdown can be located by id “challenger_age”
Now replace the strikethrough line with the new line in the feature
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Editting is complete. To run gwen-web with the environment specific age, simply type “gwen-web features/floodio/ -p dev.properties -b -r devReport”, or alternatively you can run “gwen-web features/floodio/ -p sit.properties -b -r sitReport”.
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