I'm new to the test automation scene so forgive me if this is a stupid question but google has failed me this time. Or at least anything I've read has just confused me further.
I'm using JUnit 4 and Selenium Webdriver within Eclipse. I have several tests that I need to run as a suite and also individually. At the moment these tests run fine when run on their own. At the start of the test an input box is presented to the tester/user asking first what server they wish to test on (this is a string variable which becomes part of a URL) and what browser they wish to test against. At the moment when running the tests in a suite the user is asked this at the beginning of each test, because obviously this is coded into each of their @Before methods.
How do I take in these values once, and pass them to each of the test methods?
So if server = "server1" and browser = "firefox" then firefox is the browser I want selenium to use and the URL I want it to open is http://server1.blah.com/ for all of the following test methods. The reason I've been using seperate @Before methods is because the required URL is slightly different for each test method. i.e each method tests a different page, such as server1.blah.com/something and server1.blah.com/somethingElse
The tests run fine, I just don't want to keep inputting the values because the number of test methods will eventually be quiet large.
I could also convert my tests to testNG if there is an easier way of doing this in testNG. I thought the @BeforeSuite annotation might work but now I'm not sure.
Any suggestions and criticism (the constructive kind) are much appreciated