 How To Assign Test Data To a Csvpath Statement

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A csvpath statement can be linked to a test data file so that the user running it doesn’t have to constantly pick a test file for each run. This is a FlightPath Data capability. CsvPath Framework does not have a way to link a csvpath to default test data.

There are two ways to create the connection:

• Add a test-data: metadata field to a comment above the csvpath
• Simply ctrl-r or select Run on the context menu and be prompted for the test data

If you do the latter, when you pick your test file, not only will the csvpath run, but FlightPath will also add the test-data: directive with the file you selected.

Add test-data: manually

• Open FlightPath and navigate to your project’s examples/schemas directory
• Open schemas.csvpaths
• In the top csvpath statement, notice that there is a test-data: directive in the first path’s leading comment

Automatically add test-data:

• Right-click on the whitespace in your project’s file tree to select the root and show the context menu
• Select New file and create a file named test.csvpath
• Right-click again and create a file named test.csv
• Open test.csv and enter a line or two of random data; whatever you like.
• Open test.csvpath and click the cursor in the csvpath
• Hit ctrl-r to run. The file finder dialog will open so you can pick a data file. Pick test.csv.
• The csvpath runs and the results are available in the Help and Feedback area
• Notice that test-data: was added to a leading comment in your csvpath file with the fully qualified path to test.csv