How to disable entire unit test in TestNG?

java unit-testing junit testng
yegor256 picture yegor256 · Jun 2, 2011 · Viewed 36.6k times · Source

This is what I can do in JUnit:

import org.junit.*;
@Ignore
public class FooTest {
  //
}

and the entire class will be ignored. How can I do the same in TestNG?

Answer

razlebe picture razlebe · Jun 2, 2011

I believe what you want is:

@Test(enabled=false)
public class FooTest {
  //
}

(You can apply the @Test annotation to the class, as well as to methods individually.)

The TestNG documentation has a comprehensive list of the supported annotations, and also describes exclusion/inclusion of tests by group if that's of any interest. Here's a quote from the relevant section:

@Test Marks a class or a method as part of the test.

...(snip)...

enabled: Whether methods on this class/method are enabled.

EDIT: Ignoring a class by applying @Test(enabled=false) is apparently buggy functionality in some versions of TestNG according to this defect that was raised against TestNG.

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