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I am trying to execute a TestNG Suite file via the command line in order to initiate a regression run. Currently I am doing this through my Eclipse IDE successfully by right-click on the "testng.xml" file then selecting Run As > TestNG Suite.

However, when I try to run it via the command line, I get an error message. Steps below:

  • I navigate to the directory where my "testng.xml" file is saved. e.g. C:\Users\xxx\Documents\eclipse projects\Automated Testing\config

  • Run the command:

    java org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

The above command generates the below response:

Error: Could not find or load main class org.testng.TestNG

  • I tried setting the classpath to include all of the selenium and testNG Jar files as per below:

    set classpath C:/Users/xxxx/Downloads/selenium-java-2.25.0/selenium-2.25.0/libs/*

However, this generates the below error message:

Environment variable classpath C:/Users/xxxx/Downloads/selenium-java-2.25.0/selenium- 2.25.0/libs/* not defined

I have looked on the testNG Documentation (http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html) and this just says that testNG has to be in your classpath, so now I am a bit stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Either methods work :)

Method #1

cd C:\Workspace\projectname java -cp C:\Workspace\projectname\lib\*;C:\Workspace\projectname\bin org.testng.TestNG testng.xml

Method #2

cd C:\Workspace\projectname set ProjectPath=C:\Workspace\projectname echo %ProjectPath% set classpath=%ProjectPath%\bin;%ProjectPath%\lib\* echo %classpath% java org.testng.TestNG %ProjectPath%\testng.xml
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Thanks @siemic, I have finally got it working now. Basically you just need to run the two commands below:

  1. set classpath=..\bin;C:\libs\selenium-java-2.25.0.jar;C:\libs\testng-6.0.1-nobsh
    noguice.jar;C:\libs*

  2. java org.testng.TestNG

It was the first command that I was having trouble with, so just to elaborate I needed to set the following three items on the classpath:

  • The BIN Directory of my project. This is because the java files that I have developed are located here.
  • The Selenium.jar file, this is because I am using the selenium framework
  • The testng.jar file, needed because this is my unit testing framework

Then finally I used a wildcard to include all other JAR files within my libraries folder. The weird thing is I needed to fully specificy the name of the selenium and testng jar files, or else the tests don't work. Not too sure why.

Anyway it is working fine now and I am able to execute the tests via the command line.

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