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The Cucumber for Java Book
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The Cucumber for Java Book

by Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Reusing the Browser

Each of our scenarios is exercising our application through our web UI and so needs to use a browser. At the moment we start a new instance of Firefox for each scenario, which takes a fair amount of time. Is it really necessary, or could our scenarios all use the same instance of Firefox?

It’s important that each scenario is isolated from all other scenarios, but the browser itself holds very little context. In most situations it is quite safe to reuse the same browser instance for all your scenarios as long as you clear out any cookies. In this example it’s even simpler—we have no cookies.

Sharing a Browser Using Spring

We’re using a Spring configuration file, cucumber.xml, to define our EventFiringWebDriver. It just ...

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