Working with TestNG - Starters Guide

To run TestNG using ANT follow the below steps:

We need to download the latest version of Apache Ant, follow the link http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi to download ant.

To Set Ant Environment:

To set the ANT_HOME environment variable give the path of directory location of ANT libraries is saved.

• For windows environmentset ANT_HOME to C:\user\Apache Software Foundation\apache-ant-1.9.4
• For Linux export ANT_HOME=/user/apache-ant-1.9.4
• For Mac export ANT_HOME=/Library/apache-ant-1.9.4 

To add Ant compiler location to System Path for different operating system:

• For windows add path %ANT_HOME\bin to the end of the system variable path.
• For Linux export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin/
• For Mac not required

Create New Project:

• Create folder TestNGWithAnt in C:\>Users\testng\workspace
• Create folder src in C:\>Users\testng\workspace >TestNGWithAnt
• Create folder test in C:\>Users\testng\workspace >TestNGWithAnt
• Create folder lib in C:\>Users\testng\workspace >TestNGWithAnt
• Create ListofColor.java class in C:\>Users\testng\workspace >TestNGWithAnt>src

Create ListofColor.java:

package testNG;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class ListofColor {
	public String[] colorContainer() {
		String[] container = {
			"Green", "Red", "Yellow"
		};
		System.out.println("The List of colors: " + Arrays.toString(container));
		return container;
	}

	public String[] addThings() {
		String[] container = {
			"Zen", "Swift", "Maruthi", "Nano"
		};
		System.out.println("Now the container: " + Arrays.toString(container));
		return container;
	}
}

Create TestA class:

package testNG;

import org.testng.Assert.*;
import org.testng.Test;

public class TestA {

	ListofColor list = new ListofColor();
	String[] bagA = {
		"Green", "Red", "Yellow"
	};
	String[] bagB = {
		"Holden", "Swift", "Ford", "Nissan"
	};

	@Test
	public void testContainer() {
		System.out.println("Inside testComtainer()");
		assertArrayEquals(bagA, list.colorContainer());
	}

	@Test
	public void testAddThings() {
		System.out.println("Inside testAddThings()");
		assertArrayEquals(bagB, list.addThings());
	}
}

Add JUnit.jar to C:\>Users\testng\workspace>TestNGWithAnt>lib

<taskdef name="tesngtest" classname="org.testng.TestNGAntTest">
 <classpath>
    <pathelement location="lib/testng-6.8.jar"/>
 </classpath>
</taskdef>

Use  <testng> task in Ant to execute our TestNG test cases.

The build.xml file is as follows: 

Create Build.xml of Ant:

First define TestNG Ant task as follows:

<project name="TestNGAntTest" default="test" basedir=".">
    <!-- Define <testng> task -->
    <taskdef name="testngtest" classname="org.testng.TestNGAntTest">
        <classpath>
            <pathelement location="lib/testng-6.8.jar"/>
        </classpath>
    </taskdef>
    <property name="testdir" location="test" />
    <property name="srcdir" location="src" />
    <property name="libdir" location="lib" />
    <property name="full-compile" value="true" />
    <path id="classpath.base"/>
    <path id="classpath.test">
        <filesetdir="${libdir}">
            <include name="**/*.jar" />
        </fileset>
        <pathelement location="${testdir}" />
        <pathelement location="${srcdir}" />
        <path refid="classpath.base" />
	</path>
    <target name="clean" >
        <delete verbose="${full-compile}">
            <filesetdir="${testdir}" includes="**/*.class" />
        </delete>
    </target>
    <target name="compile" depends="clean">
        <javacsrcdir="${srcdir}" destdir="${testdir}" verbose="${full-compile}">
            <classpathrefid="classpath.test"/>
        </javac>
    </target>
    <target name="test" depends="compile">
        <testngoutputdir="${testdir}" classpathref="classpath.test">
            <xmlfilesetdir="${srcdir}" includes="testng.xml"/>
        </testng>
    </target>
</project>

After execution of Build.xml file the output is:

test:
 [testng] [TestNG] Running:
 [testng] C:\>Users\testng\Workspace\TestNGWithAnt\src\testng.xml
 [testng] 
 [testng] Inside testContainer()
 [testng] The List of colors:[Green, Red, Yellow]
 [testng] Inside testAddThings()
 [testng] Now the container:[Holder, Swift, Ford, Nissan]
 [testng] 
 [testng] ==============================================
 [testng] test Suite
 [testng] Total tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
 [testng] ===============================================
 [testng]

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 second

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