Maven : How to configure Maven into your Windows Machine

Maven is a powerful tool that is used for projects build and dependency management. 

Let see how you can configure Maven into you Windows machine.

Step1 : Download the Maven binary from you offical site. 

Step2 : Extract the binary and save it in some location.
        Let say c:\users\qahumor\maven

Step3 : Now we have to set Environment Variable for Maven.
        Right-click on My Computer ->Properties -> Advanced System Settings.
        Under Advanced Tab -> Click on "Environment Variables".





Step4 : Then click on New in System Variables.

Step5: Provide Variable name = M2_Home and Variable value = path where you saved &
       extract the maven binary ,in this case c:\users\qahumor\maven




Step6 : Select Path variable in System Variables and click on Edit 
        (be careful while changing anything).

Step7 : Go to the end and enter value like - ;%M2_Home%\bin
        (make sure to put semi-colon incase if its not present) and hit OK.




Step8 : To check whether Maven is configured properly.
        Open command prompt and type these commands

       -> mvn -version  [To see the version of maven into your pc]
				&
       -> mvn clean  [This is command to clean the project , you will see Build Failure ,
                      this is expected as you don't have POM.xml file as of now]




		
Thank you!!

Java : How to read data from properties file

How to read data from properties file

The Properties class represents a persistent or defined set of properties. The Properties can be saved to a stream or loaded from a stream. Each key and its corresponding value in the property list is a string.
Because Properties inherits from Hashtable, the put and putAll methods can be applied to a Properties object.

The Properties file is highly used in automation. Let see with an example.

package com.qahumor;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Properties;

public class Reading_PropertyFile {

 /*
  * @author : Qahumor Reading Properties file in Java
  */

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Create an Object of Properties class.
Properties prop = new Properties();

// Get the path of properties file which you have created in your project.
// System.getProperty("user.dir") - help to read the root directory of your project.

// Change the below path accordingly.

String path = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/src/config/test.properties";

// Print the path of file for Debug purpose
System.out.println("Debug : Properties file path :" + path);

try {

// Reading the File input stream
 FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(path);

// Load the file into memory
 prop.load(fs);
   
} catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
}

// Read the value from Property file - test.properties
System.out.println("\nVersion of the Property file is : " 
    + prop.getProperty("version"));

}

}

Output:

Version of the Property file is : 3.1.4

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

To create a property file:

1. You can open a notepad

2. Type below content in it.

    version=3.1.4
    login=admin
    pswd=xxxx

3. Save it name "test.properties" in double quotes.

4. You can download the sample property file from Link

Thank you!!

How to create Firefox profile on Windows OS

How to create Firefox profile

Sometime we need to create different profile other than default profile 

of Firefox for new users or for any troubleshooting or for web automation.

To do this Firefox provide -P option to create new profile. 

Let's see how to achieve this.

You can watch Youtube video or follow the steps mentioned below

Step1: Make sure you close all the running firefox instance on your system.

Step2: Now press Windows+R to open RUN window.

Step3: Now type " firefox -P "  or "firefox.exe -P" and hit enter.

Step4: It will open "Firefox - Choose user Profile "  window.

Step5: Click on "Create Profile" option , it will open "Create Profile Window"

       then click  on Next button.

Step6: Provide the new profile name and choose the folder(if you would like to

       place the profile in some custom folder) and click on Finish.

Step7: Now you can see the newly created profile . Select and click on 

       "Start Firefox" button and navigate to folder (either default or custom

       folder) where you have placed the profile, you can see lots of files 

       got created in it.   

You can subscribe to my Youtube channel @ QAHUMOR

That's it , let me know if you have any comments.

How to create your laptop a Wi-Fi hotspot in 2 simple clicks

How to create your laptop a Wi-Fi hotspot

Sometimes we are required to create Wi-Fi hotspot to share internet with our friends or someone else whom you know or not. So i listed few reasons for the same when we need Wi-Fi hotspot below :

1. If you want to provide an access to your Wi-Fi for a limited period of time and incase  you don't want to reveal /share your original password to your friend or strangers.

2. If you have laptop which is connected to some Wi-Fi whose password is not known to you and you want to connect your mobile to access Wi-Fi.

3. Incase you need to test some scenario with Fancy Wi-Fi Name or long Wi-Fi name or Unicode Wi-Fi name etc.

You can use the Baidu Wi-Fi hotspot software to resolve all the above points.

You can download and install the Baidu Wi-Fi hotspot software from : http://filehippo.com/download_baidu-wifi-hotspot/ 

Once its get installed , you can create  WiFi name and password of your choice .

** You can also use this software to send file or receive file from phone.

You can watch Youtube video (in Hindi though but can be easily understandable)  for demo

Thanks,

QA Humor

Shortcuts to open Microsoft Office Apps

Shortcuts to open Microsoft Office Apps

Many of the times we have lots of apps in our system and its very hard to search and launch/open these apps even though we have the advance facility now provided by Microsoft for searching Apps but opening it from shortcuts is a faster way and comes handy if we now these shortcuts. Here are the most frequently apps which we use on daily basis.

Open Run command prompt by pressing Windows Key   

    + R . Type these shortcuts

Microsoft Apps                           shortcuts
1 . MS Word                 -                 winword
2. MS Powerpoint      -                 powerpnt
3. MS Excel                   -                 excel
4. MS Outlook             -                 outlook
5. MS Onenote            -                 onenote

You can also watch video below :

How to take backup of database and restore using command

How to take backup of database and restore using command

I was involved in working on databases using MySQL and recently i was required to re-create DB on different machine. So either you can create it from scratch or take the backup of DB from one machine and restore it on other machine which saves time. Also its a practice to take backup on regular basis.
To to this we can use below command.


To take DB backup
=============================================
-> mysqldump database_name > database_name.sql

**Make sure to keep the db name same.



To Restore DB backup
=============================================
->mysql database_name < database_name.sql


You will have the DB ready on new Box/machine in few minutes with same replica.


That's it.

How to upgrade JAVA version in AWS Linux instance

How to upgrade JAVA version in AWS Linux instance

On AWS EC2 instance(Linux) if you ever want to upgrade JAVA version to latest ,you can do it using following command.

Once the instance (EC2 linux) is up and running , connect remotely and logged in.

1. Check the version of JAVA using :

 -> java -version

2. Uninstall the Older version using : [in my case its java-1.7.0-openjdk ]

-> sudo yum remove java-1.7.0-openjdk

3. Install the Newer version of JAVA using :

-> sudo yum install java-1.8.0

To make sure its installed correctly - check the version again using command given in Step1 above.

Thats it...

Appium : How to start Appium server using command line

How to start Appium server using command line 

This is very common scenario where you will be needed to trigger/start Appium server either using command line or trigger through .bat file in automation.

I will explain here step by step how to do this and creating a .bat file in the end.

*** You can download batch file from here “appiumserver”(see explanation below)

To do this, please follow the below steps:

 Step 1: Make sure you have Node installed (if not, download it fromlink )  and would be good if
              you configured in your path variable, such that you can run node  from anywhere in your pc
              .It will be helpful in your automation.

Type node in command prompt, you will see like below screenshot (if it configured properly)

C :\> node        

 Step 2: Make sure you have Appium server is installed.

 Step 3: Open Command Prompt and navigate to Appium folder till below path(based on your
              machine ,path may change)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Appium\node_modules

 Step 4: Now run below command, with Appium server argument which you think to be part of it, I
              have passed minimum argument, based on your requirement you can add more.

 -> node appium --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4725 --platform-name Android --platform-version 19 --automation-name Appium

You can see Appium started at port 4725 , 

You can also verify one step ahead by hitting the below URL in your browser
http://127.0.0.1:4725/wd/hub/status 

Step 5:  Creating a batch file, this will make your life little easier in setup and running Appium script.

              Open notepad and paste below code and save it as "appiumserver.bat"

REM ############################################################################ 

REM ## START

echo "navigating to Appium folder"

REM ## change the folder path , based on your machine

cd /D C:/Appium/Appium/node_modules

node appium --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4725 --platform-name Android --platform-version 19 --automation-name Appium

REM ##END

REM############################################################################

You can download it from here “appiumserver”

Comment down below for any questions.