Problems running testNG from a .jar - eclipse/maven/java/testNG

[QA Tester 2014]

Hello everyone and thanks for any responses in advance.

I am new to the automation world and am trying to run testNG using Maven.

I am able to run my tests using the conventional way of right-click on testng.xml - run as TestNG suite and everything works as it should.

I would like to compile the project and execute testNG tests by running the jar file. (java -jar mytest-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar) and have the TESTS run.

I can get a hello world to run in the main but past that I cannot get the tests to run.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated. TIA

The set up:

src/main/java has 

com.test.main / main.java

com.test.suiteA / test_case_1.java

.

.

.

(In the root folder)

testng.xml

POM.xml

My POM looks like this:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.test</groupId>

  <artifactId>test</artifactId>

  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  

  

   <dependencies>

   

  <dependency>

      <groupId>junit</groupId>

      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

      <version>3.8.1</version>

      <scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

   <dependency>

  <groupId>org.testng</groupId>

  <artifactId>testng</artifactId>

  <version>6.1.1</version>

  <scope>compile</scope>

  </dependency>

    <dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-examples</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-excelant</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

</dependency>

    <dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-scratchpad</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

    </dependency>

  </dependencies>

   <build>

  <plugins>

          <plugin>

                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>

                <version>2.4</version>

                                    <executions>

                    <execution>

                        <goals>

                            <goal>test-jar</goal>

                        </goals>

                    </execution>

                </executions>

                    <configuration>

    <archive>

      <manifest>

      <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>

      <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>

          <mainClass>com/test/main/main</mainClass>

      </manifest>

    </archive>

   </configuration>

            </plugin>

    </plugins>

    </build>

</project>

I would like to have a way to point to and run the testng.xml from the main.java class when executing the .jar file.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! 

Thanks again,

QA Tester 2014

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Abraham,

What you are asking for would be technically equivalent to writing a miniature version of the TestNG suirefire plugin.

But here's a sample main() method that will let you run ONLY testng xml suites.

public static void main(String[] args) {

    XmlSuite suite = new XmlSuite();

    suite.setName("CommandLine Suite");

    List<String> files = new ArrayList<String>();

    files.addAll(Arrays.asList(args));

    suite.setSuiteFiles(files);

    TestNG tng = new TestNG();

    tng.setXmlSuites(Arrays.asList(new XmlSuite[] {suite}));

    tng.run();

}

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[QA Tester 2014]

Thanks for the response Krishnan.

After placing this in the main it still does not work.

I get an error that reads "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/testng/xml/XmlSuite"

I am not sure how it knows where the testng.xml is.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Looks like you haven't created your jar properly. You would need to do one of the following:

1. Create a uber jar that includes TestNG classes also (or)

2. Include the TestNG jar and resort to using : 

java -cp myjar.jar:testng.jar com.mycompany.MyMainClass

~ Krishnan

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[QA Tester 2014]

Thanks so much for the help Krishnan.

Now I am getting "no main manifest attribute in...jar"

My POM looks like this:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.viacom</groupId>

<artifactId>TestNG2</artifactId>

<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

<packaging>jar</packaging>

<name>TestNG2</name>

<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<properties>

<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

</properties>

<build>

<pluginManagement>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<inherited>true</inherited>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.3.2</version>

<configuration>

<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.12.2</version>

<configuration>

<suiteXmlFiles>

<suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>

</suiteXmlFiles>

</configuration>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</pluginManagement>

</build>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

<version>3.8.1</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>

<artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>

<version>3.10-FINAL</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.testng</groupId>

<artifactId>testng</artifactId>

<version>6.8.8</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</project>

Thanks again.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Please refer to this SO thread to understand how to create uber jars. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1832853/is-it-possible-to-create-an-uber-jar-containing-the-project-classes-and-the-pr

~ Krishnan

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