Question

I have a the following selenium test suite inheriting from the same base class, how to I have the tests use the same web driver instance when i run the entire test suite?. I also want to run each tests in isolation aswell. I believe this will cut down the time it takes to run the suite considerably.

This test is run from maven that in turn runs each test class.

@RunWith(Suite.class)
@SuiteClasses({
    AdminPortalTestSuite.class,
    DevPortalTestSuite.class,
    CommonTestSuite.class
})
public class SeleniumTestSuite {

}

Baseclass all tests inherit from

@BeforeClass
public static void setUp() throws Exception {

    if (null == baseUrl || !baseUrl.startsWith("https://")) {
        baseUrl = "https://localhost:8443";
    }

    if (null == browser || browser.startsWith("${")) {
        browser = "firefox";
    }
    //retrieve properties including locale.
    retrieveProperties();
    Thread.sleep(4000);
    setUpDriver();
}

@After
public void tearDownAfterTest() {
    openUrl(LIST_PARTNERS);
    adminPortalLogout();
    openUrl(DASHBOARD);
    developerPortalLogout();
    driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();
}

@AfterClass
public static void tearDown() throws Exception {
    BaseFunctionalTestCase.driver.quit();
}

test example

public class APApplicationFunctionalTestCase extends BaseFunctionalTestCase {

/**
 * Test validation when creating a new application.
 */
@Test
public void testApplicationValidation() {
    Assume.assumeTrue(preHtml5);

    final String partnerName = randomize("partner");
    //create partner
    createPartnerThroughAP(partnerName);

    adminPortalLogin();
    openUrl(ADD_APPLICATION + partnerName);
    waitForId("applicationView.applicationName");
    findById("submit-button").click();
    waitForId("submit-button");

    //check validation
    assertTrue("Failed to validate application name", 
        isTextPresent(resolveAPMessage("partner", "application.messages", 
            "NotEmpty.applicationEditView.applicationView.applicationName")));

    assertTrue("Failed to validate application username", 
        isTextPresent(resolveAPMessage("partner", "application.messages", 
            "NotEmpty.applicationEditView.applicationView.applicationUserName")));

    assertTrue("Failed to validate application password", 
        isTextPresent(resolveAPMessage("partner", "application.messages", 
            "Password.applicationEditView.applicationView.applicationPassword")));

    assertTrue("Failed to validate application password confirmation", 
        isTextPresent(resolveAPMessage("partner", "application.messages", 
            "Length.applicationEditView.applicationPasswordConfirmation")));

}

Answer 1

I’m not great with JUnit… looks like you’re trying the solution suggested here:
Before and After Suite execution hook in jUnit 4.x

which would suggest you should move your @BeforeClass into your SeleniumTestSuite class.