[jbosstools-dev] Re: Pass @Parameter value to a TestNG test from Eclipse?

[Galder Zamarreno]

http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2009/06/executing-testng-tests-relying-on.html

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

Yeah, but you're not gonna start configuring a file to run a test from 
an IDE! That'd be a PITA

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

Indeed, I couldn't find the trick anywhere. The clue came from:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/testng.html

"Your TestNG test can accept parameters with the @Parameters annotation. 
You can also pass parameters from Maven into your TestNG test, by 
specifying them as system properties, like this:"

> 
> /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, 

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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache