Constructor behavior with @Shared involved

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Hi,

This post is based on the archetype "Sample Serenity project using JBehave and WebDriver" (mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=serenity) example.

I annotated the variable endUser in class DefinitionSteps with @Shared.

public class DefinitionSteps {

    @Shared
    EndUserSteps endUser;

    @Given("the user is on the Wikionary home page")
    public void givenTheUserIsOnTheWikionaryHomePage() {
        endUser.is_the_home_page();
    }

and added a constructor to class EndUserSteps

public class EndUserSteps {

    DictionaryPage dictionaryPage;

    public EndUserSteps() {
        
        System.out.println("Ups ... I did it again");
    
    }

The example comes with a LookupADefinition.story which contains two scenarios. Usually the constructor of EndUserSteps is to be executed twice. But due to the @Shared annotation I would expect that the constructor would be invoked once only. Is that correct?

Unfortunately, the string "Ups ... I did it again" appears twice in my console output.

I am running the example with <serenity.version>2.3.2</serenity.version> and tried 2.3.8 as well. Furthermore, I did add serenity.maintain.session = true to serenity.properties.

Thanks

[wakaleo]

Shared objects are only shared in the scope of steps in a scenario, not between scenarios.