Receiving a Null Pointer Exception when running in ITR

Products

• CA Application Test
• Service Virtualization
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• CA Service Virtualization (DevTest / LISA / VSE / Application Test)

Issue/Introduction

When using ITR "Automatically execute test" option, the execution is stopped and an Error Message window is displayed. The detailed message is below: 

java.lang.NullPointerException 
at com.itko.lisa.web.jxbrowser.JxBrowser.<init>(JxBrowser.java:103) 
at com.itko.lisa.web.jxbrowser.JxBrowserUtils.getViewerBrowserWrapper(JxBrowserUtils.java:195) 
at com.itko.lisa.web.ViewHTMLResults.renderWebView(ViewHTMLResults.java:500) 
at com.itko.lisa.web.ViewHTMLResults.cleanUpViewFromITRTabSwitch(ViewHTMLResults.java:847) 
at com.itko.lisa.gui.ViewResultMasterPanel.cleanUpViewFromITRTabSwitch(ViewResultMasterPanel.java:574) 
at com.itko.lisa.editor.WalkThruPanel$4.valueChanged(WalkThruPanel.java:258) 
at javax.swing.JList.fireSelectionValueChanged(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.JList$ListSelectionHandler.valueChanged(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.fireValueChanged(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.changeSelection(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.changeSelection(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.removeSelectionIntervalImpl(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.DefaultListSelectionModel.clearSelection(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.JList.clearSelection(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.JList.setModel(Unknown Source) 
at javax.swing.JList.setListData(Unknown Source) 
at com.itko.lisa.editor.NodeListPanel.updateList(WalkThruPanel.java:1665) 
at com.itko.lisa.editor.WalkThruPanel.executeNextNode(WalkThruPanel.java:984) 
at com.itko.lisa.editor.WalkThruPanel$11.pulse(WalkThruPanel.java:1001) 
at com.itko.util.Pulse$3$1.run(Pulse.java:337) 
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source) 
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) 
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) 
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Cause

This error is caused by the internal jxbrowser conflicting with user's environment

Environment

All supported DevTest versions

Resolution

Set lisa.internal.browser.on=false in local.properties file

Additional Information

None