Dependent Test

Sometimes, you may need to invoke methods in a Test case in a particular order or you want to share some data and state between methods. This kind of dependency is supported by TestNG as it supports the declaration of explicit dependencies between test methods.

TestNG allows you to specify dependencies either with:

Using attributes dependsOnMethods in @Test annotations OR

Using attributes dependsOnGroups in @Test annotations.

Take a look over the below example:

package automationFramework;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class Dependent {

  @Test (dependsOnMethods = { "OpenBrowser" })

  public void SignIn() {

              System.out.println("This will execute second (SignIn)");

  }

  @Test

  public void OpenBrowser() {

              System.out.println("This will execute first (Open Browser)");

  }

  @Test (dependsOnMethods = { "SignIn" })

  public void LogOut() {

              System.out.println("This will execute third (Log Out)");

  }

The dependency on multiple test methods is configured for a test by providing comma separated dependent test method names to the attribute dependsOnMethods while using the Test annotation.