Facing Issue "Cannot find class in classpath" in selenium - selenium

Question

I am learning selenium, as part of i was trying to execute the below program. But i was getting the error " Cannot find class in classpath:practiseAutomation". The code is below:
public class practiseAutomation {
public WebDriver driver;
String baseurl="http://www.ticketnew.com/";
#BeforeTest
public void beforeTest() {
System.out.println("Executing Before Test Block");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "c://IEDriverServer.exe");
WebDriver driver=new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.get(baseurl);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}
#Test
public void test()
{
System.out.println("Executing Test Block");
System.out.println("The Page titile is "+ driver.getTitle());
}
}
#AfterTest
public void afterTest()
{
System.out.println("Executing After Test Block");
driver.close();
}
}
Kindly help me in resolving the above issue.

Answer 1

In your BeforeTest method, you are creating webdriver instance which has scope in beforeTest method only. It will throw null pointer in #Test and #AfterTest methods.
As you have already declared driver globally, so just initialize it in BeforeTest method like below:-
driver=new InternetExplorerDriver();
and not WebDriver driver=new InternetExplorerDriver();