According to this message: http://markmail.org/message/n2gh4tjzzg5vozxy This is not doable :( but wanted to check whether anyone got it to work. Galder Zamarreno wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a question regarding TestNG and Eclipse. Does anyone know how > to pass the value of a @Parameter to a test from Eclipse? I've got a > test that has: > > @Parameters({"basedir"}) > protected void setUpTempDir(String basedir) { > ... > > But I can't execute it from Eclipse cos it didn't get the basedir > parameter. So, I was wondering if there's any way to pass such > parameter from Eclipse. > > Cheers,

or in testng.xml or via your dataproviders as described in TestNG docs: http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html#parameters

Funny enough the system properties trick does not seem to be documented ;)

/max Galder Zamarreno wrote: > Actually, simply passing a system property worked!! I.e. > > -Dbasedir=/home/galder/tmp > > Galder Zamarreno wrote: >> According to this message: >> http://markmail.org/message/n2gh4tjzzg5vozxy >> >> This is not doable :( but wanted to check whether anyone got it to work. >> >> Galder Zamarreno wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've got a question regarding TestNG and Eclipse. Does anyone know >>> how to pass the value of a @Parameter to a test from Eclipse? I've >>> got a test that has: >>> >>> @Parameters({"basedir"}) >>> protected void setUpTempDir(String basedir) { >>> ... >>> >>> But I can't execute it from Eclipse cos it didn't get the basedir >>> parameter. So, I was wondering if there's any way to pass such >>> parameter from Eclipse. >>> >>> Cheers,