How to pass arguments to selenium from autoit script

Question

Autoit has an order value, which I want to pass it to the database as an argument to get table contents of that order id.

I tried passing from command-line, but I don't want the arguments to get passed from the command line. I am using Selenium web driver with Java.

Answer 1

You could store them in an .INI file and read this during your tests in your @BeforeClass using:

Preferences args = new IniFile(new File(fname));

Since my tests are coming from HP ALM and the testng-suite.xml is generated automatically, I simply added my arguments as parameters into the XML. You could also use AutoIt to add the lines into your testng-suite.xml

<suite verbose="-1" name="TestAutomationTest.MBC-POS-Suite" configfailurepolicy="skip" preserve-order="true">
 <parameter name="selenium.url" value="https://dfs.com" />

You can access them then in your test method, each parameter is one argument in your test method:

@Test
@Parameters({"selenium.url", "timeOut.msec"})
public void testMethod(String url, int timeout)

Answer 2

Below is the code snippet to pass arguments to autoit script, which then can be used in Selenium for uploading a file where we can pass the file path dynamically.

ControlFocus("File Upload", "", "Edit1")
ControlSetText("File Upload", "", "Edit1", $CmdLine[1])
ControlClick("File Upload", "" , "Button1")

Here, CmdLine[1] is the argument that we are passing dynamically.