Using ApacheMetaModel API with DataProvider functionality of TestNG. This makes handling data files easier to read in any OS. No more Apache POI headaches. What is ApacheMetaModel API?
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and querying of different types of data sources. With MetaModel you get a uniform connector and query API for almost any kind of dataset in the world.
This framework is an attempt to read data from an XLS file in a Linux environment and using the data in a DataProvider for TestNG.