Wind Up

Since I have decided to use this blog as a easy access to find things that I don’t want to search all over, here is the way I configure my maven-2 projects with TestNG. Here is the relevant pom entry in <build><plugins>

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <configuration>
    <argLine>-Xms128m -Xmx256m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
    <parallel>true</parallel>
    <suiteXmlFiles>
      <suiteXmlFile>src/test/config/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
    </suiteXmlFiles>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

You must make sure that the plugin snapshot repository is configured in your pom.xml, otherwise the 2.4-SNAPSHOT jar will not be found. To do that make sure the following element is defined in the <pluginRepositories> element:

<pluginRepository>
  <id>apache-snapshots</id>
  <url>http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository</url>
  <releases>
    <enabled>false</enabled>
  </releases>
  <snapshots>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
  </snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>

Note, I put all my TestNG configuration information in testng.xml. Without this file you would get all kinds of strange errors, when the surefire plugin triggers the test goal. Below is a sample testng.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">

<suite name="Sample_TestNG_Suite" verbose="4">
  <test name="DefaultTestPackage">
    <packages>
      <package name="org.anonymous.package"/>
    </packages>
  </test>
</suite>

You also need to make sure the testNG <dependency> element is available in the pom, lit below

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
  <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
  <version>5.6</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
  <classifier>jdk15</classifier>
</dependency>

Remember 5.6 is not yet available in central repositories, to install it locally use the following standard maven-2 install goal (NOTE: the whole command below is a single line)

$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=testng-5.6-jdk15.jar -DgroupId=org.testng -DartifactId=testng -Dversion=5.6 -Dpackaging=jar \ -Dclassifier=jdk15 -DgeneratePom=true

That’s it, you should be good to go, just annotate (I use JDK5) your test POJO’s and surefire plugin will be triggered by the default maven2 lifecycle.