Enable and Disable Test in TestNG

Enable and Disable Test in TestNG

To enable or disable a test we can use the enabled attribute. To enable a test we can use the flag “enabled=true”.  We can disable the test in TestNG by using the attribute “enabled=false” for the @Test method. We will see how to disable a test with a code example.

Disable a Test

public class TestNGDisableTest {

@Test(enabled=false) 
 public void disabledMethod() 
 { 
 System.out.println("In disabledMethod.. This never runs..!");
 }

}

 

Note that for the enabled method the attribute switch (enabled=true) is by default. So you may skip the switch for enabled method.

One of the most common error that is usually made is adding a dependency on a disabled test. In the next section, we will see what happens when we add the dependency on a disabled test.

 

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TestNGDisableTest {
 
@Test(enabled=false)
public void disabledMethod()
{ 
 System.out.println("In disabledMethod"); 
} 
 
 
@Test(dependsOnMethods={"disabledMethod"}) 
public void dependentMethod()
{ 
 System.out.println("In dependentMethod"); 
 
}

}

 

If we run the above test class we would get exception as below.

org.testng.TestNGException:
com.testingdocs.testng.sample.TestNGDisableTest.dependentMethod() is depending on method public void com.testingdocs.testng.sample.TestNGDisableTest.disabledMethod(), which is not annotated with @Test or not included.