Listeners in TestNG

Introduction to Listeners in TestNG

Before understanding Listeners in TestNG first, we will study Listeners and TestNG separately. There are times when we wish to modify the behavior of TestNG in our application and this can be done by Interfaces. These interfaces which help the user to do so are known as Listeners. As the name suggests, ‘Listeners’ primary task is to listen to an event defined and react according to that. The main purpose for which Listeners are used by the programmers is to create logs and create the custom reports according to the specific scenario defined.

Types of Listeners in TestNG

There are various types of Listeners in TestNG and each listener serves its different purpose. Some of them are mentioned below:

1. IConfigurable
2. IAnnotationTransformer
3. IHookable
4. IReporter
5. ISuiteListener

Methods of Listeners in TestNG

Though there are many listeners available in TestNG and each listener has specific methods that are overridden. Let’s discuss the 2 most popular listeners and the methods which are overridden by them:

1. ITestListener

ITestListener is one of the most commonly used listeners in Selenium Webdriver. The programmer simply needs to implement the ITestListener interface and override all the methods of this interface in order to use it. It makes the call before and after every test present in the suite. There are several methods in it which are mentioned below:

• onStart: This is the first and foremost method that is called after the test class is instantiated. It can also be used to retrieve the directory from which the test is running.
• onFinish: This is the last method to be called after all the overridden methods are done.
• onTestStart(ITestResult result): This method is called each time before any new test method. It indicates that a required test method is started.
• onTestFailure(ITestResult result): This method is called when any test method is failed as it indicates the failures of the test. We can perform certain tasks on test failure like taking the screenshot when a particular test fails in order to get more deep insight into failure.
• onTestSkipped(ITestResult result): This method is called when any test method is skipped for execution.
• onTestSuccess(ITestResult result): This method is called when a particular test method is successfully executed. The programmer can perform any desired operation on test method success by writing code inside this method.
• onTestFailedButWithinSuccessPercentage(ITestResult result): This method is called when any test method is failed with some success percentage. For example, it represents the case , if any test method is executed 10 times and failed 5 times. It takes 2 parameters, i.e. successPercentage and invocationCount. For the above case, successPercentage would be 50 and the invocationCount would be 10.

2. ISuiteListener

Unlike the ITestListener, which is implemented after every test method, ISuiteListener is implemented at the Suite level. It has two methods which are overridden:

• onStart: This method is implemented before the invocation of the test suite which means all the code written inside it is run before the start of any suite.
• onFinish: This method is implemented after the invocation of the test suite which means all the code written inside it is run after the whole test suite is run.

How to Create Listeners in TestNG?

There are basically 2 ways of creating Listeners in TestNG:

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1. We can use the @Listeners interface within the class.

Step 1: The first and foremost step is to create a class for Listener which is implementing ITestListener and overriding all its methods explained above.

Class: TestListener.java

Code:

package Demo;
import org.testng.ITestContext;
import org.testng.ITestListener;
import org.testng.ITestResult;
public class TestListener implements ITestListener
{
@Override
public void onTestStart(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Started test case is "+ res.getName());
}
@Override
public void onStart(ITestContext res)
{
}
@Override
public void onFinish(ITestContext res)
{
}
// Run when the test case passed successfully
@Override
public void onTestSuccess(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case passed is "+res.getName());
}
// Run when the test case fails
@Override
public void onTestFailure(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case failed is "+res.getName());
}
// Run when test case pass with some failures
@Override
public void onTestFailedButWithinSuccessPercentage(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case passed with failure is "+res.getName());
}
// Run when the test case is skipped
@Override
public void onTestSkipped(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case skipped is :"+res.getName());
}
}

Step 2: Next we need to implement the above Listener in the normal Java Program of login in an application having the @test methods using @Listeners annotation.

Class: Testing.java

Code:

package Demo;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Listeners;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
@Listeners(Demo.TestListener.class)
public class Testing
{
String driverPath =
"C:\\Users\\username\\Downloads\\Compressed\\geckodriver.exe";
public WebDriver driver;
@BeforeMethod
public void startBrowser() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",driverPath);
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette",true);
driver= new FirefoxDriver();
}
// Test case to login an application which will pass .
@Test
public void LoginMethod()
{
driver.get("http://testing-ground.scraping.pro/login"); driver.findElement(By.id("usr")).sendKeys("admin");
driver.findElement(By.id("pwd")).sendKeys("123");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"case_login\"]/form/input[3]")).
click();
}
// Test case for failure in order to check the working of listener.
@Test
public void FailMethod()
{
System.out.println("Forcefully making the method to fail");
Assert.assertTrue(false);
}
}
Step 3: Now we can add an entry of the class in the XML file like the one given below:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite">
<test name="ListenerTest">
<classes>
<class name="Demo.Testing.class"></class>
</classes>
</test>
</suite> <!-- Suite -->

Output:

2. We can use add Listeners in the XML file directly.

Though the above approach of adding the @listeners in specific classwork in a suite having so many classes, it is not considered a nice approach to add the listener to each class. Instead, we can create the entry of Listeners and classes in the XML file.

Step 1: Creating a Listener class in Java implementing the ITestListener and overriding the methods of it similar to the one mentioned above.

Class: TestListener.java

Code:

package Demo;
import org.testng.ITestContext;
import org.testng.ITestListener;
import org.testng.ITestResult;
public class TestListener implements ITestListener
{
@Override
public void onTestStart(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Started test case is "+ res.getName());
}
@Override
public void onStart(ITestContext res)
{
}
@Override
public void onFinish(ITestContext res)
{
}
// Run when the test case passed successfully
@Override
public void onTestSuccess(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case passed is "+res.getName());
}
// Run when the test case fails
@Override
public void onTestFailure(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case failed is "+res.getName());
}
// Run when test case pass with some failures
@Override
public void onTestFailedButWithinSuccessPercentage(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case passed with failure is "+res.getName());
}
// Run when the test case is skipped
@Override
public void onTestSkipped(ITestResult res)
{
System.out.println("Test case skipped is :"+res.getName());
}
}

Step 2: Next we need to create a normal Java Program of login in an application having all the @test methods and there is no need to use @Listeners annotation.

Class: Testing.java

Code:

package Demo;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Listeners;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
public class Testing
{
String driverPath = "C:\\Users\\username\\Downloads\\Compressed\\geckodriver.exe";
public WebDriver driver;
@BeforeMethod
public void startBrowser() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",driverPath);
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette",true);
driver= new FirefoxDriver();
}
// Test case to login an application which will pass.
@Test
public void LoginMethod()
{
driver.get("http://testing-ground.scraping.pro/login"); driver.findElement(By.id("usr")).sendKeys("admin");
driver.findElement(By.id("pwd")).sendKeys("123");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"case_login\"]/form/input[3]")).
click();
}
// Test case for failure in order to check the working of listener.
@Test
public void FailMethod()
{
System.out.println("Forcefully making the method to fail");
Assert.assertTrue(false);
}
}
Step 3: Now we can add an entry of the listener and class in the XML file like the one given below:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite">
<listeners>
<listener class-name="Demo.TestListener"></listener>
</listeners>
<test name="ListenerTest">
<classes>
<class name="Demo.Testing.class"></class>
</classes>
</test>
</suite> <!-- Suite -->

Output:

Conclusion

Above the description of Listeners clearly gives the basic understanding of Listeners and how they are implemented in the Java program in order to customize the logs and reports. Before using any Listener, a clear understanding is required of all the Listeners and the specific scenarios in which they need to be used along with the methods they override.

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