Keyword-Driven framework

A Keyword-Driven test is a kind of functional automation testing, where keywords are used instead of scripts. Since all the required Selenium functions and operations are prewritten in an external user-defined driver, basic knowledge of the framework's workflow is more than enough to learn and maintain tests. Furthermore, a fully developed Keyword-Driven framework reduces a tester's scripting effort. Let's take a look at Open2Test, which is purely a Keyword-Driven framework that supports Selenium WebDriver too. This framework handles the Binary Excel sheet through JExcel API.

The Open2Test components, namely Selenium_Utility, ObjectRepository, TestSuite, and Test_Script are the source files used to perform Keyword-Driven ...

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