Question

Selenium Webdriver should be static or not ?

Answer 1

Many Selenium WebDriver experts commonly employ static class variables, and WebDriver is widely used as a static reference variable.

• They benefit from static WebDriver since they don't have to declare and initialise local WebDriver objects in numerous classes to maintain the same reference, and they can access WebDriver values from a single location.
• It also enables them to disregard NullPointerException for driver instances, which is a common difficulty among Selenium WebDriver newbies.
• They make WebDriver static so that they can use the same reference in every browser without issue.

Selenium test automation does not require a static driver or static methods. They cause more difficulties than they solve. Breaking encapsulation, making things changeable, and encouraging procedural code are examples.