Selenium WebDriver: Login to a website

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Is there a way to login to a website without writing the actual password in the code. For example, I created a function to login:

var isAlreadyLogIn = false;

function LogIn (userId, password) {
    if (!isAlreadyLogIn) {
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='Email']")).sendKeys(userId);
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='Password']")).sendKeys(password);
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Login']")).click();
        isAlreadyLogIn = true;
    }
}

it('Should login', function(done) {
    LogIn("username", "password");
});
e2e-testing selenium-webdriver node.js automated-tests selenium
3 Answers

Your code will need access to the credentials. I think the most common way to solve this is to put the credentials into a config file and read it from there. If you don't want the passwords to be included with the code you can just not commit in the config-file to the repository, but share it with a different means. Alternatively you could pass the username and password as command-line arguments to your tests.

Here are NodeJS examples how to store the credentials in different ways. The examples are for databases, but the idea is the same.

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If you are using maven, an option is using the profiles and the override system properties.

    <profile>
        <id>QA</id>
        <properties>
            <runUrl>http://qaenvironment.com </runUrl>
            <admin.username>admin</admin.username>
            <admin.password>adminpass</admin.password>          
            <noadmin.username>noadmin</noadmin.username>
            <noadmin.password>qwerty123</noadmin.password>
        </properties>
    </profile>

Runing the execution whit the QA profile, for example, and in the Java code using that:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='Email']")).sendKeys(System.getProperty("admin.username"));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='Password']")).sendKeys(System.getProperty("admin.password"));
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