How to use isSkip method of org.testng.SkipException class

You can invoke TestNG from your own programs very easily:

TestListenerAdapter tla = new TestListenerAdapter();
TestNG testng = new TestNG();
testng.setTestClasses(new Class[] { Run2.class });
testng.addListener(tla);
testng.run();

This example creates a TestNG object and runs the test class Run2.

For more you can refer here

Similarly, you can invoke TestNG on a testng.xml file or you can create a virtual testng.xml file yourself

For example, suppose you want to create the following virtual file:

<suite name="TmpSuite" >
  <test name="TmpTest" >
    <classes>
      <class name="test.failures.Child"  />
    <classes>
    </test>
</suite>

You would use the following code:

XmlSuite suite = new XmlSuite();
suite.setName("TmpSuite");
XmlTest test = new XmlTest(suite);
test.setName("TmpTest");
List<XmlClass> classes = new ArrayList<XmlClass>();
classes.add(new XmlClass("test.failures.Child"));
test.setXmlClasses(classes) ;  

And then you can pass this XmlSuite to TestNG:

List<XmlSuite> suites = new ArrayList<XmlSuite>();
suites.add(suite);
TestNG tng = new TestNG();
tng.setXmlSuites(suites);
tng.run();

You need to have the testng.jar under classpath.

try C:\projectfred> java -cp "path-tojar/testng.jar:path_to_yourtest_classes" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Update:

Under linux I ran this command and it would be some thing similar on Windows either

test/bin# java -cp ".:../lib/*" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Directory structure:

/bin - All my test packages are under bin including testng.xml
/src - All source files are under src
/lib - All libraries required for the execution of tests are under this.

Once I compile all sources they go under bin directory. So, in the classpath I need to specify contents of bin directory and all the libraries like testng.xml, loggers etc over here. Also copy testng.xml to bin folder if you dont want to specify the full path where the testng.xml is available.

 /bin
    -- testng.xml
    -- testclasses
    -- Properties files if any.
 /lib
    -- testng.jar
    -- log4j.jar

Update:

Go to the folder MyProject and type run the java command like the way shown below:-

java -cp ".: C:\Program Files\jbdevstudio4\studio\plugins\*" org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

I believe the testng.xml file is under C:\Users\me\workspace\MyProject if not please give the full path for testng.xml file

Aditya,

Your code(testng.xml) for running parallel test on different-different or same system should be like below:

Testng.xml

 <!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "Http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
    <suite name="My Sample Suite" verbose="3"  parallel="tests" thread-count="2">   


      <test name="Run on Firefox">
        <parameter name="mybrowser"  value="firefox"/>
        <parameter name="myip"  value="http://172.16.10.119:5566/wd/hub"/>
        <classes>
          <class name="testcases.Login"/>
        </classes>
     </test>  
    <test name="Run on Chrome">
        <parameter name="mybrowser"  value="chrome"/>
        <parameter name="myip"  value="http://172.16.10.106:5567/wd/hub"/>
        <classes>
          <class name="testcases.Login"/>
        </classes>
     </test> 
     </suite>

here i am trying to acess one linux(ttp://172.16.10.119:5566) and one mac(http://172.16.10.106:5567) and sending its ip and browser as a parameter. To run it parallel i have mentioned in my <testsuite> tag as parallel="tests" thread-count="2"

I hope that you are pretty clear now.

Did you assign test listeners to your test?

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Group D - Using variables" parallel="false" preserve-order="true">
  <listeners>    
    <listener class-name="com.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter"/>
  </listeners>

The test listener is catching all the failures and skipped steps / tests.

I think the test class should be annotated with @RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)

Without this Powermock basically does nothing at all.

Ok, you use TestNG. It still needs the equivalent information. The setup is described here in the section "Configure TestNG to use the PowerMock object factory".

You need PowerMock to do mock static methods directly. See https://github.com/jayway/powermock/wiki/TestNG_usage

I just had this problem and I'm pretty confident that it's a bug in the TestNG Plugin for eclipse, since I was able to run my tests from the command line just fine.

The fix that seems to be working for me and others is just to clean your project (Project → Clean). One person had to re-install the whole plugin.

i have downgrade my testng-6.14.3 from testng 7.x.x now its working fine

Create an abstract class which include your configuration methods (what you want to use for more @Tests). After that extend your Test class with the created Abstract class. For example:

public abstract class configurationClass {

  @BeforeMethod
  public void beforeMethod() {
    System.out.println("beforeMethod");
  }

}

public class testClass extends configurationClass {

  @Test
  public void test1() {
    System.out.println("test1");
  }

  @Test
  public void test2() {
    System.out.println("test2");
  }

}

When you run the test class, the output will be:

beforeMethod
test1
beforeMethod
test2