Remove a test tag from suite.xml file dynamically during run time

[Musaffir lp]

Hello,

I am using IAlterSuiteListener to alter my suite xml file ... ( got to knw abt it from this blog post - https://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/building-dynamic-testng-suites/ by Krishnan sir ..) ...

basically I have many test tags in my suite xml file ..and I want to dynamicallly remove some test tags during run time ..(or) in another words I want to run only some test tags from the suite ...

Similar to method -  addTest(xmlTest) available to XmlSuite suite object, I couldn't find a method to remove a test tag ...

( the suite object need to be the same ...as I have other listener too added in the same testng suite xml file ...
so once the suite object is modified with  IAlterSuiteListener , the other listener can still act on it ... )

Please let me know if you know how to get this done ..

Thanks
Musaffir

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

When you say test tags, what are you referring to? Can you please help clarify that ?

Using IAlterSuiteListener, you should be able to pretty much do whatever you would like in terms of building a test suite dynamically.

The other approach would be to add the bean-shell capabilities that TestNG provides you, to filter out groups (am guessing you are referring to groups when you say tags).

You can read more about how to leverage a bean-shell method selector to do this from my blog here : 

https://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/beanshell-and-testng/

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else!"
My Scribblings @ http://wakened-cognition.blogspot.com/

My Technical Scribbings @ http://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/

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[Musaffir lp]

Hi Krishnan,

By test tag I meant the <test name=sometest > which is already present in my suite xml file.. ( each test has single / more classes ) .. My testng suite xml is an already existing one in which i have multiple <tests>.. by default when i execute the suite xml , all tests will be executed.

But in some situation, I wanted to pick only a single / more than one particular tests from the suite file.

I wanted to acheive this during run time and do not want to edit the xml file everytime before runningn suite..

Thanks

Musaffir

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[Musaffir lp]

Hi Krishnan,

Some how I could manage to do what I was looking for ... I am glad your post really helped me :)
I am overriding the alter method as below ....

The testNg suite xml is an already defined one ... which has multiple tests and each tests got a name as we do normally ....
Now I am giving the user a flexibility to choose a test name(s) during run time if user wish to do it .... 

@Override
    public void alter(List<XmlSuite> suites)
    {
        /*User is passing the test tag names here that he/she wish to execute.
         *This is going to be a Multi select parameter from Jenkin .. active choice parameter allows multi select
         *
         */
       
        String testsToExecute = System.getProperty("testNames","");
        // Alter the suite object only if testNames passed is not empty
        if(!testsToExecute.equals(""))
        {
            String[] testsPassedByUser = testsToExecute.split(",");
            XmlSuite suite = suites.get(0);
            List<XmlTest> xmlTests = suite.getTests();

            ArrayList<XmlTest> newXMLTests = new ArrayList<XmlTest>();

            for (String testName : testsPassedByUser)
            {                                
                for (XmlTest xmlTest : xmlTests)
                    {
                        String name = xmlTest.getName();
                        if(name.equalsIgnoreCase(testName))
                        {
                            newXMLTests.add(xmlTest);
                        }
                    }    
            }
            // suite object is altered here with the new set of xml tests
            suite.setTests(newXMLTests);

    }

}

Thanks & Warm Regards
Musaffir

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 11:30:03 PM UTC+8, Musaffir lp wrote:

Hi Krishnan,

By test tag I meant the <test name=sometest > which is already present in my suite xml file.. ( each test has single / more classes ) .. My testng suite xml is an already existing one in which i have multiple <tests>.. by default when i execute the suite xml , all tests will be executed.

But in some situation, I wanted to pick only a single / more than one particular tests from the suite file.

I wanted to acheive this during run time and do not want to edit the xml file everytime before runningn suite..

Thanks

Musaffir

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Perfect! Glad you figured this out on your own ☺

 

Thanks & Regards

Krishnan Mahadevan

 

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else!"

My Scribblings @ http://wakened-cognition.blogspot.com/

My Technical Scribbings @ http://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/

 

Musaffir

On Monday, October 30, 2017, ⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝ <krishnan.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

When you say test tags, what are you referring to? Can you please help clarify that ?

 

Using IAlterSuiteListener, you should be able to pretty much do whatever you would like in terms of building a test suite dynamically.

 

The other approach would be to add the bean-shell capabilities that TestNG provides you, to filter out groups (am guessing you are referring to groups when you say tags).

You can read more about how to leverage a bean-shell method selector to do this from my blog here : 

 

https://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/beanshell-and-testng/

 

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else!"
My Scribblings @ http://wakened-cognition.blogspot.com/

My Technical Scribbings @ http://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/

 

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Musaffir lp <musaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am using IAlterSuiteListener to alter my suite xml file ... ( got to knw abt it from this blog post - https://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/2017/09/29/building-dynamic-testng-suites/ by Krishnan sir ..) ...

basically I have many test tags in my suite xml file ..and I want to dynamicallly remove some test tags during run time ..(or) in another words I want to run only some test tags from the suite ...

Similar to method -  addTest(xmlTest) available to XmlSuite suite object, I couldn't find a method to remove a test tag ...

( the suite object need to be the same ...as I have other listener too added in the same testng suite xml file ...
so once the suite object is modified with  IAlterSuiteListener , the other listener can still act on it ... )

Please let me know if you know how to get this done ..

Thanks
Musaffir

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