Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

Testing using TestNG

TestNG (Next Generation) is another testing framework that is similar to the JUnit 4 framework, but it has new functionalities such as grouping concept, and dependency testing. These have made testing easier and more powerful. It is designed to cover all the categories of tests, such as the unit test, the functional test, the integration test, and so on. TestNG also supports multi-threaded testing.

TestNG annotations

TestNG uses annotations; a few of them are listed in the following table:

Annotation	Import	Description
@Test	org.testng.annotations.Test	It marks the method as a test method
@BeforeMethod	org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod	The annotated method will be executed before each @test annotated method
@AfterMethod ...