Sharing same selenium WebDriver between step definition files

Question

Right now we\'re working on adopting Cucumber to run functional tests on our Java8/Spring app. We want our step definition files to remain as DRY as possible and as such pla

Answer 1

I reccomend you to use pico-container as a dependency injection framework to use with cucumber-jvm.

With PicoContainer, you can have a 'base' class with the instance of WebDriver, and then pass this base class automactically to any other class. Or even you could pass directly the web driver if you prefer.

    info.cukes
    cucumber-picocontainer
    1.2.3
    test

Example:

Base class with the instance of WebDriver:

public class ContextSteps {

   private static boolean initialized = false;

   private WebDriver driver;

   @Before
   public void setUp() throws Exception {
      if (!initialized) {
         // initialize the driver
         driver = = new FirefoxDriver();

         initialized = true;
      }
   }

   public WebDriver getDriver() {
      return driver;
   }
}

Other class who access webDriver through pico-container DI.

public class OtherClassSteps {

   private ContextSteps contextSteps;

   // PicoContainer injects class ContextSteps
   public OtherClassSteps (ContextSteps contextSteps) {
      this.contextSteps = contextSteps;
   }


   @Given("^Foo step$")
   public void fooStep() throws Throwable {
      // Access WebDriver instance
      WebDriver driver = contextSteps.getDriver();
   }
}

Hope it helps.