Receiving a Null Pointer Exception when running in ITR

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)

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

Disable the browser component in the ITR.

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

note: some functionality will be missing like the rendering of html results in the ITR 

Additional Information

None