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Centralize the browser and URL variables

Centralize the browser and URL variables - Selenium Tutorial

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Centralize the browser and URL variables

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- You may recall that to optimize things, I was going to incorporate this idea of a data directory with an input data file. And I was going to place my input data and my URLS in a centralized location. Right now we have Front_Office, End_to_End and Back_Office and each one of them has a copy of this browser variable and both Front_Office and Back_Office have those respective URLs and End_to_End also has the same two URLs. You can see that starts to smell a little bit because we've got redundancy all over the place. So, a solution for that is pretty simple. I can go to my suite here and create a new directory called Data and inside there I'll create a new file called InputData.robot and now what I'm going to do is go to the End_to_End script here and grab this whole variable section and simply cut it out. I'll go to InputData, paste that in, so now you can see that I have an instance of the BROWSER variable and I'll just change that to edge for the time being and I've got my…

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