Selenium POM and TestNG NullPointer exception

Question

I am trying to automate using web driver,testng and page factory. But I am facing null pointer exception. Below is the code for the same.

HomePage page object class

This is page factory class

package POM;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

public class HomePage 
{       
    WebDriver driver;
    private static WebElement element = null;

    public HomePage(WebDriver driver)
    {
        this.driver = driver;
    }

    public static WebElement signin(WebDriver driver)
    {
        element=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div[1]/header/div[2]/div/div/nav/div[1]/a"));
        return element;
    }

    public static WebElement emailCreate(WebDriver driver)
    {
        element=driver.findElement(By.id("email_create"));
        return element;
    }

    public static WebElement submitCreate(WebDriver driver)
    {
        driver.findElement(By.id("SubmitCreate"));
        return element;
    }

}

This is Test Class for executin actual test. Test case class

package POM;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;

import POM.HomePage;

public class MyTest {


    private static WebDriver driver = null;

  @BeforeMethod
  public void beforeMethod() 
  {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("http://www.automationpractice.com");
        System.out.println("Hi");
        driver.manage().window().maximize();  
  }

  @Test
  public void login() throws InterruptedException 
  {
      System.out.println("login");
      HomePage.signin(driver).click();
      String title = driver.getTitle();
      System.out.println(title);
      HomePage.emailCreate(driver).sendKeys("ulkah@xpanxion.co.in");
      Thread.sleep(2000);
      HomePage.submitCreate(driver).click();

  }

  @AfterMethod
  public void afterMethod() 
  {
      driver.close();
  }

}

Exception I am getting below exception.

[RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 6.14.2
Starting ChromeDriver 2.36.540470 (e522d04694c7ebea4ba8821272dbef4f9b818c91) on port 42928
Only local connections are allowed.
Apr 19, 2018 2:48:27 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: OSS
Hi
login
FAILED CONFIGURATION: @AfterMethod afterMethod
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at POM.MyTest.afterMethod(MyTest.java:41)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:124)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethodConsideringTimeout(MethodInvocationHelper.java:59)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:455)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:222)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:643)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:716)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:988)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:648)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:505)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:455)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:450)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:415)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:364)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:84)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1208)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1137)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1049)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1017)
    at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)

FAILED: login
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at POM.HomePage.signin(HomePage.java:16)
    at POM.MyTest.login(MyTest.java:30)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:124)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:580)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:716)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:988)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:648)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:505)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:455)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:450)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:415)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:364)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:84)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1208)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1137)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1049)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1017)
    at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)


===============================================
    Default test
    Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0
    Configuration Failures: 1, Skips: 0
===============================================


===============================================
Default suite
Total tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0
Configuration Failures: 1, Skips: 0
===============================================

Can anyone please help me resolve this error?

Answer 1

The easiest solution is you should not declare/create the "driver" object twice.

in your test case you have created driver object twice

1st - Class variable: private static WebDriver driver = null;

2nd - in @Before method: WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

remove the "WebDriver" from second instance and let it to be "driver = new ChromeDriver();"

That's all, your null pointer exception will disappear and code will execute.

Answer 2

it seems that driver == null, that is why you got those exceptions.

Try replacing

private static WebDriver driver = null;

By

private static WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

Or in your beforeMethod replacing

WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

By

driver=new ChromeDriver();

because you're actually creating a second driver variable.