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==Data Driven==

Anything that has a potential to change (also called "variability," and includes elements such as environment, end points, test data, locations, etc.) is separated out from the test logic (scripts) and moved into an 'external asset'. This can be a configuration or test dataset. The logic executed in the script is dictated by the data values. [[Keyword-driven testing]] is similarsiilar except that the test case is contained in the set of data values and not embedded or "hard-coded" in the test script itself. The script is simply a "driver" (or delivery mechanism) for the data that is held in the data source.

The databases used for data-driven testing can include: