Element located when put in a single test case but not located when put in separate test case

Question

I am in a weird situation where I found that my element is located when I wrote in a single test case. But as soon as I put that element in a separate test case, Unable to locate element Exception is been given.

This is the code which is not working.

@Test
public void login() throws Exception {


    getdriver().get("http://10.6.6.132:3000/login");

    EyeGuide_Login_Pom lg=PageFactory.initElements(getdriver(), 
    EyeGuide_Login_Pom.class);
    lg.loginEyeguide();
    Thread.sleep(5000);
    Assert.assertEquals(getdriver().getTitle(),"EyeGuide");
    //Assert.assertEquals(getdriver().getCurrentUrl(),lg.url);
    Thread.sleep(2000);
}

@Test
public void deactivateorg() throws Exception {
    organizationpagepom or=PageFactory.initElements(getdriver(), organizationpagepom.class);
    or.deactorg();
}

}

This is the code which works as no separate test case is added.

@Test
public void login() throws Exception {


    getdriver().get("http://10.6.6.132:3000/login");

EyeGuide_Login_Pom lg=PageFactory.initElements(getdriver(), 
    EyeGuide_Login_Pom.class);
lg.loginEyeguide();
Thread.sleep(5000);
Assert.assertEquals(getdriver().getTitle(),"EyeGuide");
//Assert.assertEquals(getdriver().getCurrentUrl(),lg.url);
Thread.sleep(2000);
}


    organizationpagepom or=PageFactory.initElements(getdriver(), 
    organizationpagepom.class);
or.deactorg();


}

Below is the pom I am using.

public class organizationpagepom extends Basetest  {
//  organizationpagepom(WebDriver driver){
//      super(driver);
//  }
@FindBy(css="a[href='/organization']")
WebElement manageorg;


@FindAll(@FindBy(xpath="//*[text()='Deactivate']"))
List<WebElement> deactorglinks;
@FindAll(@FindBy(xpath="//*[@class='ant-btn downloadBtn ant-dropdown- 
    trigger']"))
List<WebElement> actdeactseldrpdown;
@FindAll(@FindBy(xpath="//*[@class='ant-dropdown-menu-item']"))
List<WebElement> activeinactiveddownvalues;


public void deactorg() throws Exception
{
    manageorg.click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    deactorglinks.get(0).click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    actdeactseldrpdown.get(1).click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    activeinactiveddownvalues.get(0).click();
    Thread.sleep(3000);
}

    }

EyeGuide_Login_Pom code is as follows.

public class EyeGuide_Login_Pom {



    @FindBy(name="phoneInput")
    WebElement un;
    @FindBy(xpath="//*[@placeholder='Password']")
    WebElement pw;
    @FindBy(css="button[type='button']")
    WebElement signinbtn;


    public void loginEyeguide() 
    {
        un.clear();
        un.sendKeys("tdladmin");
        pw.sendKeys("super");
        signinbtn.click();

    }



}

I have taken the WebDriver object as private and I used getdriver() method to access the private variable. I don't know why this issue is been popped out. The code of WebDriver access is as follows.

public class Basetest {
    private WebDriver driver;


    @BeforeTest
    public void setbrowserproperties()
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","F:\\Browser Chrome Driver files\\chromedriver.exe");
        this.driver=new ChromeDriver();
        getdriver().manage().window().maximize();
    }

    @AfterTest
    public void closedriver()
    {
        getdriver().close();
    }
    protected WebDriver getdriver() {
        return driver;
    }

}

Please help me as I am not able to find any solution. Below is the error that I am getting.

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"a[href='/organization']"}

Update: I also tried this but it didn't work and didn't give me any failure.

public organizationpagepom oged() throws Exception {    
    //getdriver().manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
    organizationpagepom oot=PageFactory.initElements(getdriver(), organizationpagepom.class); 
    oot.deactorg(); 
    return oot; 
}

Answer 1

I assume (since you haven't provided the context) that your driver is re-created in @Before at the beginning of each test. So that getDriver() of one test returns not the same instance than getDriver() in your second test.

Answer 2

Is the element you're looking for only accessible once you've logged in?

If so, in your original test, you logged in and then located the element.

Whereas in your split test, you don't login (because you have that in another test).

Therefore, this may be why you're not locating the element.