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Re: Attaching TestNG listeners via Annotation?

boroje...@gmail.com (borojevic) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:05:01 UT

Hi Humayun,
I can not protect testng.xml from being modified, but I could ask the
svn admin to give me only exclusive rights on these files.

testng.xml is actually modified all the time, because developers are
adding tests all the time, but nobody is adding the listener and there
is
no need to add listener frequently.

Re: [testng-users] Re: No interruption in a chain of dependent methods running

tpollak...@gmail.com (Tomás Pollak) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:06:56 UT

Hi Cédric,

The problem was with the eclipse plugin. I have now tested running the tests
from the command line and from maven, and they both execute the tests in the
expected order. So apparently the problem is only with the eclipse plugin.

I'll try to do more tests, but it will take me some time.

Re: [testng-users] order of execution of tests

cbe...@google.com (Cédric Beust ♔) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:53:54 UT

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:18 AM, shashank ( shantaram ) <
No, the XML file only contains the list of classes to be analyzed by TestNG.
If you need a specific ordering, you should use
dependsOnGroups/dependsOnMetho ds.

order of execution of tests

svwaingan...@gmail.com (shashank ( shantaram )) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:18:33 UT

Is there a guarantee that multiple tests in a testng.xml file will be
executed in the order they are declared in the file ?
Assume parallel option is none and no dependson annotations are used.

I have exhaustively tested this and the test are getting executed in
right order.
But wanted a confirmation before my team gets down to writing the

Re: [testng-users] Re: No interruption in a chain of dependent methods running

cbe...@google.com (Cédric Beust ♔) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:25:20 UT

Hi Tomás,

The order I get from the command line looks correct:

*********** INVOKED METHODS

test.tmp.TestA.insertA() 12741398
test.tmp.TestA.testGetA() 12741398
test.tmp.TestA.testViewA_Detai ls1() 12741398
test.tmp.TestA.testViewA_Detai ls2() 12741398
test.tmp.TestA.testViewA_Detai ls3() 12741398

Re: [testng-users] Re: Attaching TestNG listeners via Annotation?

cbe...@google.com (Cédric Beust ♔) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:56:04 UT

This is an orthogonal issue, but if that developer can modify the
testng.xml file, they can probably just as well modify a source file.
There are several ways to address this problem, code reviews being probably
the one that makes most sense (obviously, code reviews have a lot of other
benefits).
Back to the annotation discussion, my rule of thumb to use an annotation

Re: [testng-users] Re: Attaching TestNG listeners via Annotation?

smhuma...@gmail.com (S M Humayun) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:46:37 UT

Hi borojevic,

You've got a point and may be I'm wrong but shouldn't code maintenance
and governance be handled via other means? for example, what would you
do if one of your team member add one or more listeners to your
testng.xml file? how would you detect this? and more importantly how
would you protect this?

Re: [testng-users] Method dependency issues

cbe...@google.com (Cédric Beust ♔) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:04:38 UT

Hi Lidia,

You should not be mixing @Test with @AfterSuite, you should break down this
code in two categories (which one is really a test and which one is used to
tear down your test) and put these in separate methods.

Can you do this and post your updated code if you're still having problems?

Method dependency issues

lid...@gmail.com (Lidia) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:35:40 UT

Hello

I have some basic questions related to method dependency. I have the
following test:

@Test (groups = {"jsf", "ajax", "crossbrowser"})
public class TestCrossbrowserUpdateAttr extends SeleneseTestCase {
(...)

@BeforeSuite(alwaysRun = true)
@Test
public void setUp(){
(start selenium here, open start page, etc)

Re: [testng-users] Re: Get current suite name during @Factory method call

cbe...@google.com (Cédric Beust ♔) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:51:38 UT

Wow, thanks :-)

Re: Get current suite name during @Factory method call

galv...@gmail.com (Curtis W) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:47:39 UT

That works perfectly. You're a legend!

Re: [testng-users] Get current suite name during @Factory method call

cbe...@google.com (Cédric Beust ♔) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:24:33 UT

Hi Curtis,

You can tell TestNG to pass your factory an ITestContext that contains all
the information you need.

Maybe something a bit more flexible for you would be to use a parameter:

Get current suite name during @Factory method call

galv...@gmail.com (Curtis W) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:05:27 UT

I have a group of tests that are created using an @Factory method, and
are part of a larger suite that I've defined in an xml file. I'd like
these tests to run against one of several environments which are at
different URLs. For normal @Test methods this is not a problem because
in the @BeforeSuite period of testng's lifecycle I can simply call a

Eclipse Plugin 5.9.0.5 problem with IInvokedMethodListener

joseluis.bend...@gmail.com (Arkhantos) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25:50 UT

This is the problem:

when i use this listener that implements IInvokedMethodListener in
this way in my testng.xml file

everything works fine except whith listeners that implements
IInvokedMethodListener which doesn't run

Re: Attaching TestNG listeners via Annotation?

boroje...@gmail.com (borojevic) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:33 UT

Hi,
I have around 1500-2000 tests that needs to be maintained.
I specify customized listeners in suite files or when I run the suite
with ant.
Having control on listeners is much better for me then allowing anyone
in my team to specify listener just by annotating some class.
Bad implementation of listener interface, especially ITestListener