Wednesday 15 January 2014

TestNG - Verbose Attribute [Selenium Users]

Verbose Attribute lets you obtain clear reports through IDE console. This attribute will be placed inside the <Suite> tag of testng.xml as shown below:

<suite name="Suite" parallel="tests" verbose="2">

There are 10 levels of Verbose, starting from 1 to 10.
verbose="1"  —  verbose="10"

Verbose="10" gives more test details on console output whereas verbose="1" display less details.
Let me explain with an example:



Verbose "1"

1| Open testng.xml make sure verbose="1"


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite" parallel="tests" verbose="1">
    <test name="Test1">
        <classes>      
            <class name="bundle.Verb"/>
            <class name="bundle.Noun"/>
       </classes>
    </test>
    <test name="Test2">
        <classes>
            <class name="bundle.Adjective"/>      
        </classes>
    </test>

</suite> <!-- Suite -->



2| The IDE console looks like




Verbose "2"

1| Open testng.xml make sure verbose="2"


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite" parallel="tests" verbose="2">
    <test name="Test1">
        <classes>      
            <class name="bundle.Verb"/>
            <class name="bundle.Noun"/>
       </classes>
    </test>
    <test name="Test2">
        <classes>
            <class name="bundle.Adjective"/>      
        </classes>
    </test>

</suite> <!-- Suite -->



2| The IDE console looks like




Verbose "10"

1| Open testng.xml make sure verbose="10"


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite" parallel="tests" thread-count="2" verbose="10">
    <test name="Test1">
        <classes>      
            <class name="bundle.Verb"/>
            <class name="bundle.Noun"/>
       </classes>
    </test>

</suite> <!-- Suite -->


2| The IDE console looks like


6 comments:

  1. Nice Article,

    But below line is incorrect:-

    There are 10 levels of Verbose, starting from 1 to 10.
    verbose="1" — verbose="10"

    You can define verbose value > 10 as well.

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