Maintain and re-use existing webdriver browser instance - java

Question

Basically every time I run my java code from eclipse, webdriver launches a new ie browser and executes my tests successfully for the most part. However, I have a lot of test

Answer 1

I have tried the below steps to use the same browser instance and it worked for me:

If you are having generic or Class 1 in different package the below code snippet will work -

package zgenerics;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

// Class 1 :

public class Generics  {

public Generics(){}

protected WebDriver driver;

@BeforeTest

public void maxmen() throws InterruptedException, IOException{ 
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
    String appURL= "url";
    driver.get(appURL);
    String expectedTitle = "Title";
    String actualTitle= driver.getTitle();
    if(actualTitle.equals(expectedTitle)){
        System.out.println("Verification passed");
    }
    else {
        System.out.println("Verification failed");
    } }

// Class 2 :

package automationScripts;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.testng.annotations.*;
import zgenerics.Generics;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
public class Login extends Generics {
@Test
public void Login() throws InterruptedException, Exception {
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,25);

   wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("")));
   driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("")).sendKeys("");

    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("")));
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("")).sendKeys("");

}
}

If your Generics class is in the same package you just need to make below change in your code:

public class Generics  {

public Generics(){}

WebDriver driver; }

Just remove the protected word from Webdriver code line. Rest code of class 1 remain as it is.

Regards, Mohit Baluja