How to run my serenity feature, providing command line options(login credentials) to the program?

Question

My serenity project feature is working perfectly, by running maven project by using

mvn clean verify

But our leadership is against keeping login credentials(userId, password) in the feature file or any external properties file. Only supplying them in the command line like

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.module.test.Main" -Dexec.args="arg0 arg1 arg2"

But in Serenity, there is no Main.java file with main() method. Then

how do I invoke my serenity feature file to run using Maven with the provided 2 arguments ?

Your suggestions are highly appreciated,

Answer 1

First off, your company is doing the right thing. Sensitive data should never be committed to code. If it is then anybody who has access to the code has access to everything.

Serenity allows parameters to be passed at runtime, e.g.

mvn clean verify -DUSERNAME=bob -DPASSWORD=mysupersecurepassword

This will pass the values into the serenity runner. Serenity then provides a utility to read in these values using SystemEnvironmentVariables.createEnvironmentVariables, e.g.

EnvironmentVariables envs = SystemEnvironmentVariables.createEnvironmentVariables();
String username = env.getProperty("USERNAME");
String password = env.getProperty("PASSWORD");