Question

I cannot make these two work together in eclipse

I can set up surefire plugin like this

<suiteXmlFiles>
        <suiteXmlFile>${basedir}/src/test/resources/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
    </suiteXmlFiles>
    <testResources>
        <testResource>
            <directory>${project.basedir}/src/test/java</directory>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.*</include>
            </includes>
        </testResource>
        <testResource>
            <directory>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources</directory>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*</include>
            </includes>
        </testResource>
    </testResources>

and run $mvn test and all resources are compiled and moved into /target/test-classes, which works fine.

But if I run $mvn clean and then use the TestNG view to run some tests, there is nothing compiled in /target/test-classes, so that I either have to run test phase before that, or somehow employ maven-compiler-plugin:testCompile goal to compile test resources …

but maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile isn’t setup like surefire plugin via the testResources configuration. It just compiles test source code into test-classes

What should I do to make testNG execute as if I run surefire plugin ? I somehow need the effect that results from <testResources>

Answer 1

testResources & resources is part of maven-resources-plugin

compile & test-compile is part of maven-compiler-plugin

So that all you have to do is to click a button that invokes all these phases & goals before you run tests via TestNG view

compile 
test-compile
maven-resources-plugin:resources 
maven-resources-plugin:testResources 

Also, and this is very important, whenever you run test(s) from the TestNG view, eclipse creates a temporary testng.xml definition with the test(s) you have clicked on, either a test or a class of tests. So that additional settings in testng.xml that you have when running via SureFire plugin gets lost if you are using testNG run configuration via Eclipse’s Run As … it looks like this

/tmp/testng-eclipse-388280625/testng-customsuite.xml

–

<suite name="Default suite">
  <test verbose="2" name="Default test">
    <classes>
      <class name="com.example.tests.selenium.SubmitUploadFormTest"/>
    </classes>
  </test>
</suite>

It has a convenient way to deal with this – setting up a template testng.xml file in eclipse testng preferences.