On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Mircea Markus <mmarkus@redhat.com> wrote:

On 9 May 2013, at 08:02, Dan Berindei wrote:

> Why would TestNG run an @AfterMethod method if the test didn't run?

if you set alwaysRun=true on that method it will run it disregarding if the test was run or not.

> What method would it run after?

not sure i get the question.

A test method is "skipped" only if a dependency of the test failed (e.g. a @BeforeMethod method). A test that's in a different group may be considered "ignored" or "disabled", but it's not "skipped". Since TestNG is not even trying to run the method, it shouldn't run any @BeforeMethod/@AfterMethod methods for it either.

I wrote a test class with different groups for the test method and each confguration method, and the only configuration methods that ran even with no test method in the default group were @BeforeTest/@AfterTest.