How to use TimeBombSkipException class of org.testng package

Upgrading to the latest version of IntelliJ 2016.1 fixed the issue.

I suspect that you put the wrong path inside the PATH or/and ANDROID_HOME. You've received the warning

warn: The ANDROID_HOME environment variable is not set to the Android SDK root directory path. ANDROID_HOME is required for compatibility with SDK 23+. Checking along PATH for adb.

Please ensure that the PATH or/and ANDROID_HOME contains D:\Android\android-sdk but not D:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

If i understand your question correctly then what you want to do is lets say you have 10 columns and this 10 columns need to be passed to 10 test methods respectively as test data, but you want data provider as same. My recommendation: 1) Pass Method argument to your dataprovider. 2) Load whole CSV file into 2D array. 3) Based on test method name that return that column data as test data for that test. Something like below:

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TestNGTest {
    @DataProvider
    public Object[][] dp(Method method)
    {
        System.out.println("Test method : "+method.getName());
        if(method.getName().equals("test1"))
            return new Object[][]{{method.getName()}};
        else if(method.getName().equals("test2"))
            return new Object[][]{{method.getName()}};
        else
            return new Object[][]{};
    }

    @Test(dataProvider="dp")
    public void test1(String name)
    {
        System.out.println("DP -->"+name);
    }

    @Test(dataProvider="dp")
    public void test2(String name)
    {
        System.out.println("DP -->"+name);
    }
}

Within your running TestNG tagged test, Thread.activeCount() gives you the number of threads just in your current TestNG group. If your threadPoolSize is set to 1, this number will be 1. If your threadPoolSize is greater than 1, this number will be threadPoolSize + 1, because there is also a TestNG manager thread in addition to the pool size. For threads that you create on the fly, you need to construct them passing in your TestNG ThreadGroup. Example:

    Thread aNewWorkerThread = new Thread( Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup(), yourRunnableThingHere ); 

Those threads, when active, should then be reflected in your Thread.activeCount() return value.

You can ignore test method using the annotation @Test(enabled = false)

One of the easiest ways is ServletTester from Jetty. Everything is done within embedded Jetty automatically, so there is no port opened during the testing! If you use Maven than the following artifact is required to enable this method:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-servlet-tester</artifactId>
  <version>6.1.16</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Example:

Prepare ServletTester

ServletTester tester=new ServletTester(); 
tester.addServlet(HelloServlet.class, "/hello"); 
tester.start();

Create HTTP request

HttpTester request = new HttpTester(); 
request.setMethod("GET");
request.setHeader("Host","tester"); 
request.setURI("/hello");
request.setVersion("HTTP/1.0");

Call servlet and retrieve response:

HttpTester response = new HttpTester();
response.parse(tester.getResponses(request.generate()));

Assert what you want to check on response and it's content:

assertEquals(200,response.getStatus()); 
assertEquals("Hello Servlet",response.getContent());

Found an Embarrassingly simple solution: Repeating the whole Test Suit as follows

@Test
public void RepeatTestSuite() {
    long startTime = new Date().getTime();
    while(!isTestFinished(startTime)) {

          List<String> suites = new ArrayList<String>();
             suites.add("./SOAK_all41.xml"); //path of .xml file to be run-provide complete path

             TestNG tng = new TestNG();
             tng.setTestSuites(suites);

             tng.run(); //run test suite
        }

Your @BeforeMethod needs to be part of the group you are running.

You can also use @BeforeMethod(alwaysRun = true) if you don't want to hardcode the value of your group and if you think you will always want to run this method, regardless of the group you are currently running.

Why not use an instance variable?

class YourClassTest {

  Sheet wbSheet;

  @BeforeTest public void readExcel(...) {
    wbSheet = wb.getSheet(sheetName);
  }

  @Test public void test() {
    //you can use wbSheet here
  }

}