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Code Rocker

Reputation: 556

Cucumber hooks are being run, but not the tests

I'm getting the error: cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: Failed to instantiate class steps.MyStepdefs

Here's what I'm trying to do. My hooks are located in the package steps:

public class hooks {
    public static WebDriver webDriver;

    @Before
    public static void ChromeDriverSetup() {

        System.out.println("Creating new ChromeDriver instance...");
        webDriver = new ChromeDriver();

        System.out.println("Hello from hooks!");
    }

The above is executed...

But the MyStepdefs test class does not execute (it is also in the steps package) & I get the above error.

public class MyStepdefs {
   ProductPage productPageObjects = new ProductPage();


    @Given("I purchase {int} items of the same product")
    public void iPurchaseItemsOfTheSameProduct(int qty)  {

        System.out.println("Hello from MySteps!");
        productPageObjects.Visit();
        productPageObjects.ClickPlusQtyElement(qty);
    }

package pageobjects;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import static steps.hooks.webDriver;

public class ProductPage {

    private WebElement totalQtyElement = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".sanitized"));
    private WebElement plusQtyElement = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".sanitized"));

    public void Visit() {
        webDriver.get("https://www.example.com");
    }


    public String ClickPlusQtyElement(int qty) {

        int minAmount = 1;
        while (minAmount < qty)
        {
            plusQtyElement.click();
            minAmount ++;

        }
        System.out.println("The amount is now: " + totalQtyElement.getText());

        return totalQtyElement.getText();
    }
}

In IntelliJ, my glue is set as steps. I also have a RunCucumberTest class in the steps package.

package steps;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(tags = "not @ignore", plugin = {"pretty", "html:target/cucumber"})
public class RunCucumberTest {}

Why does it not execute MyStepsdefs ?

stacktrace: https://pastebin.com/X5KhHfuP

Update: When I comment out calls to ProductPage the line System.out.println("Hello from MySteps!"); does get executed. So there is an issue with that particular call.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 912

Answers (3)

Code Rocker
Code Rocker

Reputation: 556

Ok I figured it out. When I try to instantiate the class ProductPage, I get an error due to the web driver calls i.e. private WebElement totalQtyElement = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".sanitized"));

The problem is that I haven't visited a URL yet! So, I am going to put the above in a method and do some refactoring.

Upvotes: 1

BogdanSucaciu
BogdanSucaciu

Reputation: 904

The problem is in your ProductPage. When you are instantiating those 2 web elements fields : 

private WebElement totalQtyElement = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".sanitized"));
private WebElement plusQtyElement = webDriver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".sanitized"));

you get a null pointer exception.

Why? Because at that moment the @Before hook hasn't run and your webDriver is still null when you are trying to instantiate your ProductPage.

I'd suggest moving all these calls ( webDriver.findElement ) inside a step definition or inside a method that is called from a step definition. This way you can be sure that the ordering of the instantiation will not cause you problems.

Upvotes: 0

TheSociety robintyagi-sqa
TheSociety robintyagi-sqa

Reputation: 1996

If you analyse the stacktrace then we see NullPointerException being occurred at 16 line with in Class ProductPage.java

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at pageobjects.ProductPage.<init>(ProductPage.java:16)
    at steps.MyStepdefs.<init>(MyStepdefs.java:15)
    ... 18 more

Please check the initialization at the above line as probably that reference is being used in below code at line productPageObjects.Visit();

public class MyStepdefs {

    @Given("I purchase {int} items of the same product")
    public void iPurchaseItemsOfTheSameProduct(int qty)  {

        System.out.println("Hello from MySteps!");
        productPageObjects.Visit();
        productPageObjects.ClickPlusQtyElement(qty);
    }

Upvotes: 0

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