Listener for test class

[Raghu Nandan]

Hi,

My tests have some common operations to be performed (like logging ) before and after every test class. Since these operations are common for all classes, I don't want to put them in @BeforeClass and @AfterClass of each test class. It would be great if I can do this one time in a listener.

For example, a listener, say ITestClassListener with methods onTestClassStart () and onTestClassFinish () called before @BeforeClass and after @AfterClass respectively :). I am already implementing ITestListener/ISuiteListener to do common operations before/after test and suite.

Please guide me if there is already a way to achieve my requirement. Thanks!

Thanks,
Raghu

[Nalin Makar]

A simple way is to have these classes extend a common base class and putting these common methods in there.

Is there anything keeping you from adding inheritance?

-nalin

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[Cédric Beust ♔]

Hi Raghu,

A couple of suggestions:

• Use an IConfigurationListener. One caveat: I just noticed that this interface doesn't extend ITestNGListener, which might or might not be a problem depending on how you declare that listener. I'll push a new beta that fixes this shortly.
  
  
• Use an IObjectFactory. This is a bit more heavyweight in the sense that your factory will be invoked whenever TestNG needs to instantiate an object but this is also one way you can be informed whenever a new class is about to be run by TestNG (and obviously, you don't need to override the construction of the object itself, just invoke the constructor and its arguments as they are passed to you).

Hope this helps.

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Cédric

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Raghu Nandan <ragh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Raghu]

Hi Cedric,

Thanks a lot. I will try your suggestions.

Thanks,
Raghu

On Jun 3, 9:48 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote:
> Hi Raghu,
>
> A couple of suggestions:
>

>    - Use an IConfigurationListener. One caveat: I just noticed that this

>    interface doesn't extend ITestNGListener, which might or might not be a
>    problem depending on how you declare that listener. I'll push a new beta
>    that fixes this shortly.
>

>    - Use an IObjectFactory. This is a bit more heavyweight in the sense that