WebDriverProvider

The WebDriverProvider stores the WebDriver instance and makes it available to components where it is needed. Since the test classes work on an inheritance hierarchy, and with how TestNG manages threads, the WebDriver instance is required to be kept on a ThreadLocal<WebDriver> object. Rather than forcing testers to pass the WebDriver around to various library components, Qadenz has chosen to make the ThreadLocal static, and allow components that need the WebDriver to call a centralized location. On the (hopefully) rare occurrence where the WebDriver is needed directly, it can be invoked with the following call.

WebDriver webDriver = WebDriverProvider.getWebDriver();