Passing parameters to TestNG in Ant

[Bela Ban]

I'm missing the option to pass parameters to a TestNG Ant task, e.g.

<testng classpathref="jg.classpath"
             parameters="channel.conf=udp.xml,mux.on=false"
/>

The 'parameters' element could also be nested XML...

Is this by design or is it an oversight ?

[Cédric Beust ♔]

You can already define properties (java -Dfoo=bar) and these will be used as @Parameters if no corresponding parameters were found in testng.xml.

It seems to me this is similar to what you're asking for(?).

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Cédric

[Bela Ban]

Ah, didn't know that !

But this is not going to help as I'll invoke TestNG multiple times within the same JVM, e.g.:

<target name="udp-tests>
    ...

    <testng classpathref="jg.classpath"
             parameters="channel.conf=udp.xml,mux.on=false"
   

/>
</target>

<target name="tcp-tests>
    ...
    <testng classpathref="jg.classpath"
             parameters="channel.conf=tcp.xml,mux.on=false"
    />
</target>

<target name="udp-mux-tests>
    ...
    <testng classpathref="jg.classpath"
             parameters="channel.conf=udp.xml,mux.on=true"
    />
</target>

<target name="tcp-mux-tests>
    ...
    <testng classpathref="jg.classpath"
             parameters="channel.conf=tcp.xml,mux.on=true"
    />
</target>


So I want to be able to pass different parameters to different targets. This is not possible with a system property

[Alexandru Popescu ☀]

I think it is possible as the testng class supports itself specifying
sysproperties so each of the above targets will be able to define
their own set of values.

./alex
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Alexandru Popescu
TestNG co-founder
EclipseTestNG Creator