Reading Data From Excel File in Protractor

As we all are aware, data driven testing is one of the important aspects we need to take care while designing any testing framework. There could be different approaches of data Driven Testing in automation framework like

Reading Test Data from properties file
Reading Test Data from JSON File
Using DataProvider
Reading Test Data from excel

We already have seen in other blog, how to read data from properties file and use it in our automation framework. Please refer this link to know about it.

We also have seen how to Read test data from JSON file. Please click on this link.

In this blog, we will learn how to read data from Excel File and use them in our protractor automation framework.

For reading data from excel file in protractor automation framework, we need to follow below steps:

1) We need to download the npm xlxs dependency from this link in your package.json.

2) Then we can create one excel file inside our project and let's name it as GoogelTestData.With the help of this excel file I will read the url of google home page then click on Images link present on top of page and then do some search on google Search box.