We use threadcount attribute in @Test annotation of TestNg but there is no such attribute for @DataProvider annotation so is it possible to specify the thread count for Dataprovider, if yes then how? I specified Parallel=true in @DataProvider annotation and tried to read the data from Excel, there were 19 sets of test data and when executed then by default I found that 10 threads got created. I used Thread.currentThread() along with each set of Test Data to display the thread being used but I failed to understand the process and reason for 10 threads getting created.
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That is because 10 is used as the default value by testng when parallel is set to true on a DataProvider. This can be overridden by data-provider-thread-count attribute on the suite tag. Example:
<suite name="Sample Suite" data-provider-thread-count="20"> <test name="Component Tests"> <packages> <package name="com.something.tests" /> </packages> </test> </suite> The testng documentation on DataProvider has this and much more: http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html#parameters-dataproviders
