How to force TestNG create new instance of test class for each method if run mode is parallel="methods"

Question

How to force TestNG create new instance of test class for each method if run mode is parallel="methods"?

JUnit does it automatically but TestNG reuses same instance between methods.

Is there any option to change this behavior?

I'm running selenium tests and create webdriver in @BeforeMethod method and store it to class variable to use it in test methods and clos on @AfterMethod.

And I want to have ability to run methods of one test class in parallel without sharing webdriver.

Answer 1

There is no way to force testng to do that. A solution is to set webdriver instance to a threadlocal variable. What this would help doing is, it would create one webdriver object per thread, if u do a get on the variable, it. Would give u that thread's object only.

Answer 2

Checkout Factory

From javadoc:

Marks a method as a factory that returns objects that will be used by TestNG as Test classes. The method must return Object[].