1. Include groups at test tag level
2. Exclude groups at test tag level

Include groups at test tag level

Let us now see how to group @Tests using groups attribute in TestNG.

Let us create ‘LoginUser’ class under below package

Add 5 @Test methods

Add groups={“smoke”} for first and third @Test, see below

Let all 5 @Test methods fall into sanity group

Right click src/main/java > TestNG > Convert to TestNG

The xml gets created

Change the name to “LoginTest” as shown below

Let us now add groups tag at test level, see below

Next, we will open <run> tag within <groups> tag

Next, we will open <include /> tag within <run> tag, see below

Now, some of the @Tests are smoke tests and some of them are sanity tests 

Let’s say we want to execute only smoke tests. 

To do that, we can simply mention name=”smoke” as shown below

Save the xml.

Right click xml > Run as > TestNG Suite

Notice below that only 2 @Tests are executed. These 2 tests are ‘smoke’ tests 

This is how we use the <include> tag inside the xml.

Exclude groups at test tag level

We can also exclude the groups. So below will exclude all the @Tests that have groups=”sanity”

Save xml and run

Notice above, none of the test got executed. The reason being, all the @Tests are sanity tests and hence all of them got excluded

Let us remove “sanity” from first @Test

Save the class.

Now let us run the xml again. Notice below, this time the first @Test gets executed, since this test does not have “sanity” group. All the “sanity” tests got excluded viz they did not run

This is how we use the <exclude> tag inside the xml.

Thanks.