TestNG Example - testng - Passing parmeters in XML File

Our next post is based on my question in stackoverflow site. Let's try an example based on Cedric reply.

Below is example code

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Iterator;

import java.util.List;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.testng.annotations.*;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

public class TestNGXMLData

{

@Test

@Parameters(value={"A","B","C","D"})

public void xmlDataTest(String A, String B, String C, String D)

{ 

            System.out.println("Passing Three parameter to Test "+A +" and "+B + " and "+C);

            String[] elements = D.split(",");

            for (String element : elements)

            {

                  System.out.println("Item is "+element);

                 

            }

}

}

XML for setting parameters

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">

<suite name="Suite" parallel="none">

  <test name="Test" preserve-order="false">

   <parameter name="A" value="1"/> 

   <parameter name="B" value="2"/> 

   <parameter name="C" value="3"/> 

   <parameter name="D" value="4,5,6,7,8"/> 

    <classes>

      <class name="TestNGXMLData"/>

    </classes>

  </test>

</suite>

Right Click on XML and run it as TestNG Test. Below is output in console window

Passing Three parameter to Test 1 and 2 and 3

Item is 4

Item is 5

Item is 6

Item is 7

Item is 8

Extending this example and adding multiple tests and setting it for parallel execution and preserve test order.

Modified XML File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">

<suite name="Suite" parallel="classes" thread-count="5">

  <test name="firstTest" preserve-order="true">

   <parameter name="A" value="1"/> 

   <parameter name="B" value="2"/> 

   <parameter name="C" value="3"/> 

   <parameter name="D" value="4,5,6,7,8"/> 

    <classes>

      <class name="TestNGXMLData"/>

    </classes>

  </test>

  <test name="secondTest" preserve-order="true">

   <parameter name="A" value="10"/> 

   <parameter name="B" value="20"/> 

   <parameter name="C" value="30"/> 

   <parameter name="D" value="40,50,60,70,80"/> 

    <classes>

      <class name="TestNGXMLData"/>

    </classes>

  </test>

  <test name="thirdTest" preserve-order="true">

   <parameter name="A" value="100"/> 

   <parameter name="B" value="200"/> 

   <parameter name="C" value="300"/> 

   <parameter name="D" value="400,500,600,700,800"/> 

    <classes>

      <class name="TestNGXMLData"/>

    </classes>    

  </test>

</suite>

Modified code adding try-catch block (Keeping up with Coding Guidelines :))

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Iterator;

import java.util.List;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.Selenium;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.testng.annotations.*;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

public class TestNGXMLData

{

@Test

@Parameters(value={"A","B","C","D"})

public void xmlDataTest(String A, String B, String C, String D)

{ 

            try

            {

                  System.out.println("Passing Three parameter to Test "+A +" and "+B + " and "+C);

                  String[] elements = D.split(",");

                  for (String element : elements)

                  {

                        System.out.println("Item is "+element);

                       

                  }

            }

            catch(Exception e)

            {

                  System.out.println("Exception Occurred "+ e.toString());

            }

}

}

Output

Passing Three parameter to Test 1 and 2 and 3

Item is 4

Item is 5

Item is 6

Item is 7

Item is 8

Passing Three parameter to Test 10 and 20 and 30

Item is 40

Item is 50

Item is 60

Item is 70

Item is 80

Passing Three parameter to Test 100 and 200 and 300

Item is 400

Item is 500

Item is 600

Item is 700

Item is 800

Happy Reading!!