How to group all the tests in your suite?

TestNG has multiple annotations and limitless options. Grouping the tests is one among them.

Scenario: A big basket is having different kind of mobiles. Let us say there are Apple phones, Moto G, MI and Lenova.

I want to run tests only for MI and Apple phones. Let's solve this with the below program.

package seleniumWithTestNG;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class GroupTest {

    @Test (groups = { "Apple" })
    public void apple1() {
        System.out.println("Test Apple device 1");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "Apple" })
    public void apple2() {
        System.out.println("Test Apple device 2");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "MI" })
    public void mi1() {
        System.out.println("Test MI device 1");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "MI" })
    public void mi2() {
        System.out.println("Test MI device 2");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "Moto" })
    public void motog1() {
        System.out.println("Test Moto device 1");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "Moto" })
    public void motog2() {
        System.out.println("Test Moto device 2");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "Lenova" })
    public void lenova1() {
        System.out.println("Test Lenova device 1");
    }

    @Test (groups = { "Lenova" })
    public void lenova2() {
        System.out.println("Test Lenova device 2");
    }
}

Before proceeding copy and paste the below code in the testng.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd" >
<suite name="Test Suite" verbose="2">
    <test name="Group Test">
        <groups>
            <run>
                <include name="Apple" />
                <include name="MI" />
            </run>
        </groups>        
        <classes>
            <class name="seleniumWithTestNG.GroupTest" />
        </classes>
    </test>
</suite>

Run the testng.xml file as TesNG Suite

Output:

If you observe the above output only Apple and MI tests ran. That is because of the groups tag that we use in the testng.xml. I presume the code is self explanatory as you have come across several chapters. If you have any issues in understanding leave a comment.

HomeWork:

We have seen so many examples using TestNG, please go through the different types of annotations. This link explains the differences between TestNG and Junit.