restore current sections for next test case in Selenium scripts

Question

I am using selwnium web driver. When I am using selenium and nunit to run my test cases I find that every time a test case starts it open a new page and when its done the mew page will be destoryed. Therefore I have to open new page and login in every test case.

I want to have my test cases share one single webpage so that they can be performed in sequence.

Is a selenium limitation, or is it a way to implement it?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Try to declare Webdriver instance variable as static inside your test class and initialize only once. Your behavior is because different webdriver instances does not share the same session, so therefore you have always to login into desired page.

Answer 2

You probably using @Before , @After annotation. Try use @BeforeClass, @AfterClass instead. e.g:

....
static WebDriver driver;
@BeforeClass
    public static void firefoxSetUp() throws MalformedURLException {


        driver = new FirefoxDriver();  

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().window().setSize(new Dimension(1920, 1080));
    }
    @Before
    public void homePageRefresh() throws IOException {
        driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();
        driver.get(propertyKeysLoader("login.base.url"));
    }


    @AfterClass
    public static void closeFirefox(){
        driver.quit();
    }
.....