That article you referred to seems to indicate that the context variable needs to be set from the command line to be global for the entire suite. I think the question is can a context variable be set at the suite level? I have the same question. If I create a context variable in a test, or set a value in a test, how can that context variable be passed to another test in the same suite?

I also needing to share a value across tests. For example test 1 creates and order. In the final step, I capture the new order number. Subsequent tests in the Suite need to do other operations to that order. How can I pass the order number to the subsequent tests?