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

This question is old, and I left the project shortly after asking this question, but I went back and looked at the code we put in place (using the singleton pattern) and this is what we ended up with. I forget exactly why we couldn't use pico-container (it was possibly an organizational constraint) but if you can use extra libraries I remember that solution worked well.

I will leave that as the accepted answer but hopefully this solution is useful for those who find themselves in a similar position that I was in a few years ago.

public class TestingBase {

    private static TestingBase instance;
    private static WebDriver driver;
    private static Thread CLOSE_DRIVER = new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            driver.close();
        }

    };

    static {
        Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(CLOSE_DRIVER);
    }

    private TestingBase() {
        DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
        desiredCapabilities.setJavascriptEnabled(true);
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("takesScreenshot", false);
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("handlesAlerts", true);

        desiredCapabilities.setCapability(PhantomJSDriverService.PHANTOMJS_CLI_ARGS, new String[]{
                "--web-security=false",
                "--ssl-protocol=TLSv1",
                "--ignore-ssl-errors=true",
                "--webdriver-loglevel=ERROR",
                "--webdriver-logfile=/var/log/phantomjs/ghostrdriver.log"
        });
        desiredCapabilities.setCapability("elementScrollBehavior",true);
        driver = new PhantomJSDriver(desiredCapabilities);
    }

    public static TestingBase getTestingBase() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new TestingBase();
        }
        return instance;

    }

    public static WebDriver getDriver() {
        return getTestingBase().driver;
    }
}