Best and easy way to Group test cases in selenium

How To Group test cases in selenium. I am sure you must have got this question in mind is there any way to group a set of test cases in Selenium, yes we have the TestNG group feature which will allow you to do the same.

Grouping in Automation is quite an interesting feature through which you can easily categorize your test cases based on requirements.

For Example- If we have 200 test cases out of these some are end-to-end test cases, some are functional test cases and some are regression or smoke test cases so if you don’t categorize these test cases these all test cases will come under one common category.

Group Selenium Script using TestNG

For grouping in Selenium, we have to use TestNG feature through which we can create groups and maintain them easily.

We can include and exclude groups through testng.xml file

 How to create group in TestNG

We have predefined syntax for this

    Syntax

   @Test(groups={"groupname"})

    Example

    @Test(groups={"Smoke"})

We can create multiple groups as well

  Syntax

    @Test(groups={"group1","group2"})

After grouping in Selenium we can specify the include and exclude in testng.xml.

<include> – It tells testng.xml that which group we need to execute.

<exclude>- It tells testng.xml which group we have to Skip

Therefore, if you execute your test cases with grouping then we have to modify our testng.xml file and we have to explicitly specify the group.

Complete program to group test cases in selenium

Sample Program

package testngDemo;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TestGroupDemo {

    
    @Test(groups={"Smoke"})
    public void login(){
        
        System.out.println("Login done");
        System.out.println("Smoke Scenario passed");
    }
    
    @Test(groups={"Regression"})
    public void register(){
        System.out.println("Registration done");
    }
    
    
    
}

We need to modify the  testng.xml to Group test cases in selenium

 <?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">
    <groups>
     
       <run>
            
            <include name="Smoke" />
            <exclude name="Regression"/>
             
       </run>
     
    </groups>
    <classes>
      <class name="testngDemo.TestGroupDemo"/>
    </classes>
  </test> <!-- Test -->
</suite> <!-- Suite -->

In above xml we have crea

I created a new tag called group, inside the group we have mentioned the include and exclude tag, and we have mentioned the group name, which we have to include and exclude.

Once you run the above XML it will run all the test cases, which belong to Smoke group category.

Let us run this XML and see the output.

 Console output.

Check out HTML Reports as well after executing scripts. You can verify included and excluded the group in report itself.

Visting XSLT reports also for attractive reports.

 

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