Question

I don’t know if I’m not doing this right or if i have to handle builtin gradle tasks differently but i have a test task that i defined like this

task testNGTests(type: Test) {
     useTestNG()
}

and am trying to use it in a doFirst closure like this

task taskA {
  doFirst {
        testNGTests.execute()
   }
}

but it does not work for some reason, i have also tried

testNGTests.executeTests() 

but that did not work either. Is there a special way that I have to handle the built in test task?

I am using gradle version 0.9.2

Answer 1

Executing a task from another task isn’t (and never was) officially supported. Try to use task dependencies instead, e.g. taskA.dependsOn(testNGTests).