How to set TestNG in classpath in Maven project?

Maven is a project management and comprehension tool that provides a complete build lifecycle framework. User can automate the project's build infrastructure in almost no time as Maven uses a standard directory layout and a default build lifecycle.

In case of multiple environments, Maven can set?up the way to work as per standards in a very short time. As most of the project setups are simple and reusable, Maven makes life easy while creating reports, checks, build and testing automation setups.

Maven provides developers ways to manage the following ?

• Builds

• Documentation

• Reporting

• Dependencies

• SCMs

• Releases

• Distribution

• Mailing list

To summarize, Maven simplifies and standardizes the project build process. It handles compilation, distribution, documentation, team collaboration and other tasks seamlessly. Maven increases reusability and takes care of most of the build related tasks.

TestNG is a testing framework and can use Maven as build tool. It helps to maintain dependencies and their version at one place in pom.xml. Since TestNG dependency or any other dependencies are managed by Maven in pom.xml as shown in pom.xml, user doesn't require to add classpath explicitly for TestNG or any other dependencies. We don't require any lib folder to maintain dependent jars and all as it is taking care by maven at run?time.

pom.xml

This is a maven configuration file that is used to organize dependencies, plugins and run the TestNG test cases.

It is very handy when limited tests are needed to execute rather than full suite.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.sample</groupId> <artifactId>TestNGProjectct</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M5</version> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <properties> <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source> <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.testng</groupId> <artifactId>testng</artifactId> <version>7.3.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>