Question

Let’s say I have two maven profiles for running projects web tests:
1. first deploys to CI tomcat instance with say http://ci.blahblah.com:8080 address and then tests are run
2. second profile for developers who can deploy to embedded tomcat using tomcat:run. So their address for web tests would be like http://localhost:8080

Now I created both profiles in pom file and in each of them in section <properties> I also created <base.url> property with different address for each profile.

Is there any way how I can now read these values into my java class where I launch web-tests using Webdriver so I could have sth like driver.get("address from pom <base.url>") ??

It simply allows developers to run web tests locally before commiting his/hers code.

Answer 1

You can use maven resource filtering. For instance:

First change your code so that it pulls the address from the properties file. Many ways to do this (reading the properties file directly, using spring propertyplaceholderconfigurer, etc)

String address = getAddressFromPropertiesFileOrInjectedFromSpringOrWherever();
driver.get(address)

Next create the properties file that will store this information, most likely in src/main/resources. Ensure that the value of your property uses the same name as your maven variable:

webAddres=${base.url}

Ensure that filtering is setup in your profile as per the link above.