How to call @BeforeSuite after instantiation of webdriver in Arquillian

Question

I am trying to use @BeforeSuite after instantiation of webdriver in Arquillian

I am just give a example below

@RunAsClient
public class GoogleTest extends Arquillian {

    @Drone
    private WebDriver driver;

    @ArquillianResource
    private URL contextRoot;

    @Page
    Google googlePage;

    @BeforeSuite
    public void init() {
        driver.get(contextRoot.toString());
    }

    @Test
    public void googleSearchTest() {
        System.out.println(contextRoot);
        googlePage.searchFor("Arquillian Graphene");
    }
}

But it is getting null pointer exception because driver not instantiate. So My question is how to call my @BeforeSuite after Arquillian defined @BeforeSuite.

I don't want to do the webdriver instantiation part, I prefer it should be handled by Arquillian @Drone annotation and I will execute my own @BeforeSuite after that.

Answer 1

WebDriver life cycle is controlled by Arquillian Drone. You do not have to instantiate it!

You should not access WebDriver in the BeforeSuite as it would not have been initialized by Arquillian by that time. Actually it does after that. So, this is a good place if you want to override any of your arquillian.xml settings programmatically.

If you want to do some setup using webdriver like login etc, You can do that in the test itself or BeforeTest. BeforeSuite is not a good place for launching a URL