CHANGES.txt

Current

Fixed: https://github.com/cbeust/testng/issues/56 testng-results.xml was reporting the instance name instead of the method name
Fixed: NPE when using preserve-order and factories.

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6.1
6/30/2011

Possible backward incompatible changes:

- Don't mutate the value returned by XmlTest#getIncludedGroups and XmlTest#getExcludedGroups.
Instead, use addIncludedGroup/addExcludedGroup.
- Failing methods that have dependees will only cause skips in the same instance. Different
test instances will not be affected

Added: Support for ServiceLoader for ITestNGListener
Added: @Factory(dataProvider / dataProviderClass) on constructors
Added: assertNotEquals() to Assert
Added: assertArrayEquals() to AssertJUnit
Added: Nested classes are now automatically added for consideration for inclusion
Added: <suite preserve-order="true"> will cause this attribute to be propagated to all <test> tags
Added: <groups> can now be specified under a <suite>
Added: Tycho compatibility (Aleksander Pohl)
Added: New <test> and <suite> flag: group-by-instances
Added: -xmlpathinjar to specify the path of testng.xml inside a test jar file
Added: ISuite#getAllMethods, to retrieve all the methods at the start of a suite.
Added: Output ITestResult attributes in xml report (nguillaumin)
Fixed: Thread safety problem in MethodInvocationHelper (Baron Roberts)
Fixed: Group dependencies were not being skipped properly.
Fixed: Dependency failures only impact the same instance
Fixed: Static classes could cause a StackOverFlowError
Fixed: IConfigurationListener was not extending ITestNGListener
Fixed: IConfigurationListener#onConfigurationFailure was never called
Fixed: TESTNG-476: <test> tags are now run in the order found in testng.xml
Fixed: Now showing failed/skipped error messages on the console for verbose >= 2
Fixed: ITestResult#getEndMillis() return 0
Fixed: TESTNG-410: Clearer error message
Fixed: TESTNG-475: @DataProvider doesn't support varargs
Fixed: Performance problems in EmailableReporter
Fixed: TESTNG-472: Better output for assertNull()
Fixed: ConcurrentModificationException when using parallel data providers.
Fixed: TESTNG-282: Problem when including+excluding packages (addicted)
Fixed: TESTNG-471: assertEquals(Map, Map) fails if a map is a subset of the other
Fixed: JUnitReporter generates an <error> tag for successful expectedExceptions tests
Fixed: ISSUE-47: Don't allow two <test>s with same name within same suite (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: If a listener implements both ISuiteListener and IInvokedMethodListener, only one of them gets invoked

Eclipse:

Added: New quick fix "Add static import org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertXXX"
Added: New workspace wide setting: excluded stack traces, to provide shorter stack traces in the view
Added: New "Clear results" icon in the tool bar
Added: When the search filter is modified, don't update the tree live if it is too big 
Added: Two new @Test refactorings (pull to class level, push to method level)
Added: JUnit conversion: @Ignore
Added: JUnit conversion: assertArrayEquals()
Added: JUnit conversion: @RunWith(Parameterized.class)
Added: Support for Hamcrest failed assertions in the compare dialog
Added: JUnit conversion: suite() methods can now either be removed, commented out or left untouched
Fixed: JUnit conversion: super.setUp()/tearDown() were being removed when extending a class other than TestCase
Fixed: "Run as" menu not appearing for methods that take a generic parameter.
Fixed: The tree was incorrect if the same class is used in different <test> tags
Fixed: When creating a new Run/Debug configuration, "Launch.label" was displayed
Fixed: TESTNG-459: TestNG menu should not always be present in context menu (Mykola Nikishov)
Fixed: Performance problems in the plug-in
Fixed: Workspace-wide XML template files are not being honored.
Fixed: @BeforeClass/@AfterClass from JUnit4 are not being properly converted
Fixed: Conversions generate @Test() instead of @Test

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6.0
2011/03/16

Added: @Guice(moduleFactory) and IModuleFactory
Added: @Guice(module)
Added: timeOut for configuration methods
Added: -randomizesuites (Nalin Makar)
Added: IConfigurable
Fixed: @Test(priority) was not being honored in parallel mode
Fixed: @Test(timeOut) was causing threadPoolSize to be ignored
Fixed: TESTNG-468: Listeners defined in suite XML file are ignored (Michael Benz)
Fixed: TESTNG-465: Guice modules are bound individually to an injector meaning that multiple modules can't be effectively used (Danny Thomas)
Fixed: Method selectors from suites were not properly initialized (toddq)
Fixed: Throw an error when two data providers have the same name
Fixed: Better handling of classes that don't have any TestNG annotations
Fixed: XmlTest#toXml wasn't displaying the thread-count attribute
Fixed: TESTNG-438: Regression in 5.14.1: JUnit Test Execution no longer working
Fixed: TESTNG-436: Deep Map comparison for assertEquals() (Nikolay Metchev)
Fixed: Skipped tests were not always counted.
Fixed: test listeners that throw were not reporting correctly (ansgarkonermann)
Fixed: <suite junit="true"> wasn't working.
Fixed: In parallel "methods" mode, method interceptors that remove methods would cause a lock up
Fixed: EmailableReporter now sorts methods chronologically
Fixed: TESTNG-411: Throw exception on mismatch of parameter values (via DP and/or Inject) and test parameters
Fixed: IDEA-59073: exceptions that don't match don't have stack trace printed in console (Anna Kozlova)
Fixed: IDEA's plug-in was not honoring ITest (fixed in TestResultMessage)
Fixed: Methods depending on a group they belong were skipped instead of throwing a cycle exception
Fixed: TESTNG-401: ClassCastException when using a listener from Maven
Fixed: TESTNG-186: Rename IWorkerApadter to IWorkerAdapter (Tom‡s Pollak)
Fixed: TESTNG-415: Assert.assertEquals() for sets and maps fails with 'null' as arguments
Fixed: typo -testRunFactory
Fixed: NPE while printing results for an empty suite (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: Invoke IInvokedMethodListener.afterInvocation after fixing results for tests expecting exceptions (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: TESTNG-441: NPE in SuiteHTMLReporter#generateMethodsChronologically caused by a race condition (Slawomir Ginter)

Eclipse:
Added: Convert to YAML
Added: New global preference: JVM args
Added: Eclipse can now monitor a test-output/ directory and update the view when a new result is created
Added: Right clicking on a class/package/project now offers a menu "TestNG/Convert to TestNG"
Added: Excluded methods are now listed in the Summary tab
Added: "Description" column in the excluded methods table
Added: Dialog box when the plug-in can't contact RemoteTestNG
Added: Double clicking on an excluded method in the Summary tab will take you to its definition
Added: If you select a package before invoking the "New TestNG class" wizard, the source and package text boxes will be auto-filled
Added: When an item is selected in a tab, the same item will be selected when switching tabs
Added: A new "Summary" tab that allows the user to see a summary of the tests, sort them by time, name, etc...
Added: It's now possible "Run/Debug As" with a right click from pretty much any element that makes sense in the tree.
Added: JUnit conversion: correctly replaces assertNull and assertNotNull
Added: JUnit conversion: removes super.setUp() and super.tearDown()
Added: JUnit conversion: removes @Override
Added: JUnit conversion: replaces @Test(timeout) with @Test(timeOut) (5.14.2.4)
Added: JUnit conversion: replaces @Test(expected) with @Test(expectedExceptions) (5.14.2.4)
Added: JUnit conversion: replaces fail() with AssertJUnit.fail() (5.14.2.2)
Added: JUnit conversion: replaces Assert with AssertJUnit (5.14.2.1)
Added: The progress bar is now orange if the suite contained skipped tests and no failures
Added: Skipped test and suite icons are now orange (previously: blue)
Added: New method shortcuts: "Alt+Shift+X N", "Alt+Shift+D N" (Sven Johansson)
Added: "Create TestNG class" context menu
Added: When generating a new class, handle overridden methods by generating mangled test method names
Fixed: Green nodes could override red parent nodes back to green
Fixed: Was trying to load the classes found in the XML template file
Fixed: Stack traces of skipped tests were not showing in the Exception view
Fixed: XML files should be run in place and not copied.
Fixed: NPE when you select a passed test and click on the Compare Result icon (Mohamed Mansour)
Fixed: When the run is over, the plug-in will no longer force the focus back to the Console view
Fixed: The counter in the progress bar sometimes went over the total number of test methods (5.14.2.9)
Fixed: org.eclipse.ui.internal.ErrorViewPart cannot be cast to org.testng.eclipse.ui.TestRunnerViewPart (5.14.2.9)
Fixed: Workspace preferences now offer the "XML template" option as well as the project specific preferences (Asiel Brumfield)
Fixed: TESTNG-418: Only last suite-file in testng.xml run by Eclipse plugin

Documentation:
Added: Section on Selenium (Felipe Knorr Kuhn)
Added: Link to an article on TestNG, Mockito and Emma in the Misc section

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5.14.7
2011/01/27

Release for IDEA

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5.14.1
2010/10/2

Fixed: TESTNG-401: ClassCastException when using a listener from Maven

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5.14
2010/08/28

Added: test suites can now be run in parallel with -suitethreadpoolsize
Fixed: @Listeners now aggregate through base classes
Fixed: ISuite was no longer serializable
Fixed: Injection was sometimes not working properly when used with @Parameters
Fixed: TESTNG-400: afterMethod was called after onTestFailure()
Fixed: "excludedgroups" was not working on the ant task because of a typo
Fixed: ant task error if <classfileset> is used with no classes (welex91)
Fixed: TESTNG-404: threaded tests fail due to use of non-threadsafe collections (Marcus Better)
Fixed: preserve-order was not preserving class order with dependent methods
Fixed: RetryAnalyzer wasn't working properly with factories
Fixed: The ant task was no longer supporting ',' for testclass

Eclipse:

Fixed: The plug-in wasn't running Groovy tests correctly (Andrew Eisenberg)
Fixed: TESTNG-402 [Eclipse Plug-In] NPE occurred when I run twice a custom "Run configuration" on a group

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5.13.1
2010/08/05

Added: -methods
Added: -configfailurepolicy (Todd Quessenberry)
Added: -methodselectors (Todd Quessenberry)
Added: @NoInjection
Added: <test preserve-order="true">
Added: -testnames (command line) and testnames (ant)
Added: New ant task tag:  propertyset (Todd Wells)
Added: ITestNGListenerFactory
Added: Passing command line properties via the ant task and doc update (Todd Wells)
Added: Hierarchical XmlSuites (Nalin Makar) 
Added: Reporter#clear()
Fixed: NullPointerException when a suite produces no results (Cefn Hoile)
Fixed: Identical configuration methods were not always invoked in the correct order in superclasses (Nalin Makar) 
Fixed: @DataProvider(parallel = true) was passing incorrect parameters with injection
Fixed: Replaced @Test(sequential) with @Test(singleThreaded)
Fixed: If inherited configuration methods had defined deps, they could be invoked in incorrect order (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: Initialize all Suite/Test runners at beginning to catch configuration issues right at start (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: Issue7: Issue86 Incorrect dates reported for configuration methods
Fixed: Issue24: OOM errors in SuiteHTMLReporter (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: Time outs specified in XML were not honored for <suite parallel="tests">
Fixed: <suite> and <test> time outs were hardcoded, they now honor their time-out attribute
Fixed: TestNG was hanging if no test methods were found
Fixed: onTestSuccess() was called after @AfterMethod instead of after the test method (test: test.listener.ListenerTest)
Fixed: XML test results contained skipfailedinvocationCounts instead of skipfailedinvocationcounts
Fixed: Issue4 assertEquals for primitive arrays, Issue34 assertNull javadoc updated
Fixed: Issue78 NPE with non-public class. Now throws TestNG exception
Fixed: NPE with @Optional null parameters (Yves Dessertine)
Fixed: TESTNG-387 TestNG not rerunning test method with the right data set from Data Provider (Franois Reynaud)
Fixed: Show correct number of pass/failed numbers for tests using @DataProvider
Fixed: Return correct method status and exception (if any) in InvokedMethodListener.afterInvocation() 
Fixed: Trivial fixes: TESTNG-241 (log message at Info), Issue2 (throw SAXException and not NPE for invalid testng xml) 
Fixed: Configuration methods couldn't depend on an abstract method (Nalin Makar) 
Fixed: TestNG#setTestClasses was not resetting m_suites
Fixed: Exceptions thrown by IInvokedMethodListeners were not caught (Nalin Makar)
Fixed: @Listeners now works on base classes as well
Fixed: Test priorities were not working properly in non-parallel mode
Fixed: @Listeners wasn't working properly with ITestListener

Eclipse

Fixed: TESTNG-395 New wizard was creating classes called "NewTest"
Fixed: TESTNG-397 Class level @Test was preventing groups from showing up in the launch configuration

Doc
Updated Maven documentation (Brett Porter)

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5.12.1
2010/03/29

Maven update

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5.12

Removed: Javadoc annotation support

Added: @Listeners
Added: IAttributes#getAttributeNames and IAttributes#removeAttribute
Added: testng-results.xml now includes test duration in the <suite> tag (Cosmin Marginean)
Added: Injection now works for data providers
Added: TestNG#setObjectFactory(IObjectFactory)
Added: Priorities: @Test(priority = -1)
Added: New attribute invocation-numbers in <include>
Added: testng-failed.xml only contains the data provider invocations that failed
Added: IInvokedMethodListener2 to have access to ITestContext in listeners (Karthik Krishnan)
Fixed: @Before methods run from factories were not properly interleaved
Fixed: The TextReporter reports skipped tests as PASSED (Ankur Agrawal)

Eclipse:

Added: New file wizard: can now create a class with annotations, including @DataProvider
Added: You can now select multiple XML suites to be run in the launch dialog
Fixed: @Test(groups = <constant>) was taking name of the constant instead of its value.
Fixed: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRECLIPSE-476 NPE with Groovy Tests (Andrew Eisenberg)
Fixed: The custom XML file is now created in the temp directory instead of inside the project
Fixed: In the launch dialog, now display an error if trying to pick groups when no project is selected
Fixed: Was not setting the parallel attribute correctly on the temporary XML file

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5.11
2009/12/08

Added: Dependent methods can now run in their own thread
Added: dataProviderThreadCount can be set from the command line and from ant (Adrian Grealish)
Added: ITestAnnotation#setDataProvider
Added: Assert#assertEquals() methods for Sets and Maps
Fixed: The text reporter was no longer reporting stack traces for verbose >= 2
Fixed: dataProviderClass was not respecting inheritance (like most attributes still)
Fixed: @BeforeSuite/@AfterSuite would run multiple times when used in a @Factory
Fixed: packages=".*" wasn't working properly (sandopolus)
Fixed: TestResult#getName now returns the description instead of the method
Fixed: @DataProvider and dependent methods were not skipping correctly (Francois Reynaud)
Fixed: TESTNG-347 suite with parallel="tests" and test with parallel="classes" doesn't work correctly (Rob Allen)
Fixed: TESTNG-67: @Configuration/@Factory methods in base class being ignored
Fixed: Inner test classes were not excluded properly (Carsten Gubernator)
Fixed: threadPoolSize without invocationCount was causing reporters not to be invoked
Fixed: A @Factory throwing an exception did not cause any error
Fixed: <classfilesetref> was not working properly in the ant task (Ed Randall)
Fixed: @BeforeClass methods were not running in parallel (Aidan Short)
Fixed: Test class with @ObjectFactory doesn't get instantiated via the factory
Fixed: Allow IObjectFactory to load from non-standard classloader (for PowerMock support)

Eclipse 5.11.0.19:
Added: New "parallel" preference setting (Windows / Preferences / TestNG)
Fixed: IIinvokedMethodListeners were not invoked

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5.10

Added: The output in the testng-results.xml is now sorted by the starting timestamp (Daniel Rudman)
Added: Better display of the test name and method description in the default and Emailable report
Added: If both -testjar and an XML file are provided on the command line, the latter will be used
Added: @Before and @After methods can be injected with the current XmlTest
Added: Methods that time out now display the stack trace showing where the time out occurred
Added: ITestResult#getAttribute and ITestResult#setAttribute
Added: @After methods can now be injected with an ITestResult
Added: @BeforeMethod and @AfterMethod methods can now be injected an ITestResult
Added: ISuite#getAttribute and ISuite#setAttribute to share data within a suite
Added: @Test(expectedExceptionsMessageRegExp = ".*foo.*")
Added: @DataProvider(parallel=true)
Fixed: @Test(dataProvider) was not working at the class level
Fixed: Display a better error message if the wrong exception is thrown with an expectedExceptions
Fixed: Classes created by factories were not run in the order they were created
Fixed: Dependent methods are now run closer to methods within their class
Fixed: xmlFileSet in ant was not working correctly (Sean Shou)
Fixed: Various oversights in the DTD (Will McQueen)
Fixed: XMLUtils was not escaping XML attribute values
Fixed: TESTNG-317: Sequence order mis-calculation: testing using suite in sequence for classes and same method names creates non-sequential order
Fixed: Test names (classes that implement org.testng.ITest) now appear more prominently in the HTML reports
Fixed: expectedExceptions=RuntimeException.class was not failing when no exception was throw
Fixed: TESTNG-291: Exceptions thrown by Iterable DataProviders are not caught, no failed test reported (Roberto Tyley)
Fixed: TESTNG-301: Need to include parameters in testNG report for test created by @Factory
Fixed: testng-failed.xml now includes skipped tests
Fixed: TestNG couldn't find Groovy files (Haw-Bin)

Eclipse

Fixed: TESTNG-313: Provide extension point to contribute test and report listeners (Erik Putrycz)
Fixed: Quick fixes no longer introduce deprecated annotations (Greg Turnquist)

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5.9
2009/04/09

Added: New ant task boolean flag: delegateCommandSystemProperties (Justin) 
Added: skipfailedinvocations under <suite> in testng-1.0.dtd (Gael Marziou / Stevo Slavic) 
Added: -testrunfactory on the command line and in the ant task (Vitalyi Pamajonkov)
Added: TESTNG-298: parallel="classes", which allows entire classes to be run in the same thread
Added: @BeforeMethod can now declare Object[] as a parameter, which will be filled by the parameters of the test method
Added: IAnnotationTransformer2
Added: @Test(invocationTimeOut), which lets you set a time out for the total time taken by invocationCount
Added: IInvokedMethodListener
Added: -testjar supports jar file with no testng.xml file
Fixed: IInvokedMethodListener wasn't properly recognized from the command line (Leonardo Rafaeli)
Fixed: TESTNG-309 Illegal default value for attribute in DTD file
Fixed: TESTNG-192: JUnit XML output includes wrong tests (Aleksandar Borojevic)
Fixed: Set a generated suite to default to non-parallel (Mark Derricutt)
Fixed: -testJar command line parsing bug
Fixed: testng-failed.xml didn't include the listeners
Fixed: annotation transformers were not run when specified in testng.xml
Fixed: TESTNG-192: JUnit XML output includes wrong tests (Borojevic)
Fixed: @Parameters was not working correctly on @BeforeMethods with @DataProvider used on @Test methods
Fixed: testng-failed.xml was sometimes incorrectly generated (Borojevic)
Fixed: TestNG-228: Assert.assertEqualsNoOrder
Fixed: TestNG-229: Assert.assertEquals does not behave properly when arguments are sets
Fixed: TESTNG-36: assertEquals(Collection actual, Collection expected, String message) may have bug
Fixed: TESTNG-296: Malformed jar URLs breaking -testJar
Fixed: TESTNG-297: TestNG seemingly never stops running while building failed test suite (Gregg Yost)
Fixed: TESTNG-285: @Test(sequential=true) works incorrectly for classes with inheritance
Fixed: TESTNG-254: XMLSuite toXML() ignores listeners
Fixed: TESTNG-276: Thread safety problem in Reporter class
Fixed: TESTNG-277: Make Reporter.getCurrentTestResult() public
Fixed: Potential NPE in XmlTest#getVerbose (Ryan Morgan)
Fixed: EmailableReporter only displayed the first group for each test method
Fixed: time-outs were not working in <test> and <suite>
Fixed: @BeforeTest failing in a base class would not cause subsequent test methods to be skipped
Fixed: TESTNG-195: @AfterMethod has no way of knowing if the current test failed
Fixed: TESTNG-249: Overridden test methods were shadowing each other if specified with <include>
Fixed: DataProviders from @Factory-created tests were all invoked from the same instance
Fixed: enabled was not working on configuration methods
Fixed: IIinvokedMethodListener was not correctly added in TestNG
Fixed: NPE in XmlSuite#toXml
Fixed: TESTNG-231: NullPointerException thrown converting a suite to XML (Mark)

Doc:
Added: 5.20: IInvokedMethodListener
Added: -testjar

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5.8

Fixed: TestNG-220: Ignore class definition/loader issues when scanning classpath for implicit classes
Fixed: TestNG-224: Fix for relative suite filenames in XML file
Added: TestNG-213: @Optional on a method parameter to allow optional @Parameters
Fixed: TestNG-214: SkipException and TimeBombSkipException should accept nested exceptions
Fixed: TestNG-211: new Parser(inputStream) doesn't work
Added: Methods that form a cycle are now shown when the cycle is detected
Added: Support for <listeners> in testng.xml
Added: IMethodInterceptor
Added: @TestInstance on a data provider method parameter
Fixed: @AfterMethod(lastTimeOnly) didn't work properly with data providers
Added: antlib.xml to allow autodiscovery of Ant task definition
Fixed: name attribute on <test> is required

Doc:
Added: Method Interceptor
Added: @Optional
Added: Doc for IMethodInterceptor (5.16) and TestNG listeners (5.18)
Added: 5.19: Dependency injection

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5.7

Added: @BeforeMethod(firstTimeOnly) and @AfterMethod(lastTimeOnly)
Added: @BeforeMethods can now take a Method and ITestContext parameters (like @DataProvider)
Fixed: logging about abstract classes moved to level 5
Added: if @Parameter is missing from testng.xml then it is read from the System properties
Fixed: Don't run a @DataProvider method as a test when a class-level @Test is present
Added: Attribute @Test#skipFailedInvocations
Fixed: TESTNG-169 Error message: <method> is depending on nonexistent method null ("null" is uninformative)
Fixed: -listener takes comma-separated classes
Added: RetryAnalyzer (experimental) (Jeremie)

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5.6
2007/06/14

Added: SkipException/TimeBombedSkipException for manual skipping
Added: <tests> can now be disabled at xml level using <test enabled="false">
Added: Suite files that only contain other suites do not get reported
Fixed: @BeforeClass methods would incorrectly report cyclic graphs
Added: get/setAttribute to ITestContext
Added: plugging in factory objects to handle the actual instantiation of tests
Added: dataProvider to @Factory
Added: ISuite now gives access to the current XmlSuite
Fixed: TESTNG-139 dependsOnMethods gets confused when dependency is "protected"
Fixed: TESTNG-141 junit attribute set to false in testng-failed.xml when it should be true
Fixed: TESTNG-142 Exceptions in DataProvider are not reported as failed test
Added: Improved behavior for @Before/@AfterClass when using @Factory 
(http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=6594&messageID=122294#122294)
Added: Support for concurrent execution for invocationCount=1 threadPoolSize>1 and @DataProvider
(http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=64738&tstart=0)
Added: New TestNG specific XML report, generated by default in 'xml' subdirectory of test-output
Added: support in strprotocol for passing the ITest.getTestName() information
Fixed: TESTNG-152 If DataProvider is not found, the exception message should tell exactly what happened

Eclipse plug-in

Fixed: Bug that made group launch configurations unusable
Fixed: The plugin doesn't create the correct launch configuration for @Factory
Fixed: Method based launchers cannot be editted
Fixed: Plugin hangs while executing test with dataprovider that sends \n, \r messages
Added: display ITest.getTestName()

IDEA plug-in

Fixed: IDEA 7.0 compatibility
Fixed: occasional 'illegal arguments exception'
Fixed: TESTNG-151 Final passing test result is not properly hidden
Added: Auto-completion for dependsOnMethods
Added: Highlighting of invalid groups/methods in dependsOn*

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5.5
2007/01/25

Fixed: @BeforeGroup methods were run twice when in a base class
Fixed: @BeforeGroup methods were run twice with a @Test at class level
Fixed: parallel="tests" didn't work as advertised
Added: Support for thread-count at test level
Added: Method selectors receive a Context and can stop the chain with setStopped()
Fixed: XmlMethodSelector was always run first regardless of its priority
Added: @BeforeGroups/@AfterGroups can live in classes without @Test methods
Added: DataProvider can now take an ITestContext parameter
Fixed: Wasn't parsing <selector-class-name> correctly 
Fixed: Annotation Transformers now work on class-level annotations
Fixed: Some class-level @Test attributes were not always honored
Added: Clean separation between @Test invocation events and @Configuration invocation events
       (see also TESTNG-111)
Added: Test instances created by @Factory now run in multiple threads in parallel mode
Fixed: @Before/@AfterGroups invocation order
Fixed: TESTNG-27: Parameters are not used on <test> level anymore
Fixed: TESTNG-107 don't create an output directory if "outputDirectory" is null
Fixed: TESTNG-127 UseDefaultListeners in Ant Task does not work
Fixed: TESTNG-119 Running TestNG runner with invalid '-sourcedir' on JDK14 JavaDoc annotated test classes won't fail.
Fixed: TESTNG-113 Dependent methods within the same static inner class are not found
Fixed: TESTNG-125 TestNG failed for test classes under *.java*.* pakages

Eclipse plug-in
Fixed: issue with launch configuration
Fixed: TESTNG-124: setting location of testng reports output

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5.4

Fixed: Ant task issue with paths containing spaces
Added: for @BeforeGroups and @AfterGroups specifying the groups() attribute will auto-include the method
			 into those groups by default (previously you had to also provide the value() attribute).
Added: the load @Tests (invocationCount + threadPoolSize) are triggered simultaneous
Fixed: reports are correctly displaying the thread info
Added: @DataProvider name defaults to method name
Added: support for remote protocol to pass parameter information
Fixed: TextReporter logs information about the parameters of the test methods
Fixed: concurrency issue in JUnitXMLReporter
Fixed: output of JUnitXMLReporter must be CDATA
Fixed: XML unsupported annotations/parallel attribute values are reported

Eclipse plug-in
Fixed: groups with multi-attribute javadoc annotations
Fixed: consistent behavior for dependsOnMethods
Fixed: consistent behavior for tests with dependsOnGroups (a warning is emitted)
Fixed: consistent merge of configuration arguments when an existing launch configuration exists 
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5.3
2006/10/30

Fixed: use a single instance of bsh.Interpreter
Added: @Before/@AfterMethod can declare a java.lang.reflect.Method parameter to be informed about the @Test method
Fixed: super classes must not be listed in testng-failures.xml
Fixed: parallel attribute must not appear if empty or null in testng-failures.xml
Fixed: parsing for javadoc annotations is done on request only
Added: improved multiple suite summary page report
Added: -target option deprecated in favor of -annotations javadoc|jdk
Fixed: filesets in the ant task didn't work if the paths have spaces in them
Fixed: Before/After Suite were behaving wrong in parallel execution
Added: A generic/extensible RemoteTestNG was added to the core
Fixed: Before/AfterGroup-s were behaving wrong when using invocationCount, dataProvider and threadPoolSize
Fixed: improved support for running different annotation type tests in the same suite
Fixed: testng-failed.xml was generated even if there were no failures/skipps
Fixed: -usedefaultlisteners was wrongly passed to JVM instead of TestNG options
Added: Attribute dataProviderClass for @Test and @testng.test
Fixed: Forgot to account for cases where both invocationCount and DataProviders are present
Fixed: AfterGroups were invoked out of order with invocationCount and DataProviders
Fixed: Reporter.getOutput() returned an empty array if a timeOut was specified
Added: testng.xml now supports <suite-files>
Added: ant task can receive several listeners
Fixed: TESTNG-109 Skipped tests with expected exceptions are reported as failures
Added: ant task can now select the parallel mode for running tests
Fixed: ant task correctly deals with empty groups and excludedgroups parameters
Added: ant task can override default suite and test names
Added: comand line support for setting parallel mode, suite and test names

Eclipse plug-in
Added: Support for configuring per project usedefaultlisteners
Added: Contextual drop-down menu on failures tab of the TestNG view to enable running/debugging method failure only
Added: Suppport for configuring per project TestNG jar usage (project provided one or plugin provided one)

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5.2

Added: "-usedefaultlisteners true/false" to command line and ant
Added: EmailableReporter (from Paul Mendelson)
Added: parallel can now be "methods" or "tests". Boolean version deprecated
Added: TestNGAntTask now uses the @ syntax to invoke TestNG
Added: Command line understands @ syntax
Added: JUnitConverter uses the new syntax
Added: -groups to JUnitConverter
Fixed: Throw proper exception when a DataProvider declares parameters
Added: completely revamped JUnit support (should run all kind of JUnit tests)
Fixed: TESTNG-40 (Bug in testng-failed.xml generation)
Fixed: TESTNG-106 (Failed "@BeforeSuite" method just skipps the last test in xml-file)
Fixed: Success on 0 tests (http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=41213)

Eclipse plug-in
Added: TESTNG-105 Automaticaly define TESTNG_HOME classpath variable

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5.1
2006/08/18

Added: @Test(sequential = true)
Fixed: TESTNG-102 (Incorrect ordering of @BeforeMethod calls when a dependency is specified)
Fixed: TESTNG-101 (HTML output contains nested <P> tags and a missing <tr> tag)
Added: support for specifying test-only classpath (http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?messageID=78048&tstart=0)
Fixed: TESTNG-93 (method selectors filtering @BeforeMethod)
Fixed: TESTNG-81 (Assert.assertFalse() displays wrong expected, actual value)
Fixed: TESTNG-59 (multiple method selectors usage results in no tests run)
Fixed: TESTNG-56 (invocation of @Before/AfterClass methods in parallel/sequential scenarios)
Fixed: TESTNG-40 (failures suite does not contain @Before/After Suite/Test methods)
Fixed: TESTNG-37 (allow passing null parameter value from testng.xml)
Fixed: TESTNG-7 (display classname when hovering method)


Eclipse plug-in

Added: run contextual test classes with parameters from suite definition files
Added: TESTNG-100 (Show HTML reports after running tests)
Added: TESTNG-97 (Double click top stack to raise comparison)
Added: TESTNG-84 (plug-in UI for suite option should support absolute path)
Added: TESTNG-20 (copy stack trace)

Fixed: TESTNG-72 (display groups with non-array values)
Fixed: TESTNG-64 (Eclipse plug-in applies added groups to all launch configurations)
Fixed: TESTNG-28 (Cannot select groups from dependent eclipse projects)
Fixed: TESTNG-25 (do not display fully qualified method name when running contextual test class)

Improved behavior:
	TESTNG-98 (temporary files have guaranteed fixed names)
	TESTNG-95 (Assertion failed comparison trims trailing ">")
	TESTNG-70 (TestNG prevents eclipse from opening an older CVS version of a java class)
	display of test hierarchy information (TESTNG-29)

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5.0.1

Eclipse plug-in

Added: Output directory for the tests
Added: Can now specify listener classes

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5.0.1

Fixed: reports generated by SuiteHTMLReporter do not work with JDK1.4
			 
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5.0
2009/04/01

Added: Ant task: support for JVM, workingDir, timeout
Added: Stack traces can be interactively shown in the HTML reports
Added: Link to testng.xml in the reports
Added: New structure for reports, suites go in their individual directory
Added: @Test(suiteName) and @Test(testName)
Added: The stack traces in reports do not include TestNG frames (system property testng.exception)
			 (see: http://groups.google.com/group/testng-dev/browse_thread/thread/9f4d46ade10b0fda)
Fixed: Exit with error when no methods are run
			 (see: http://groups.google.com/group/testng-dev/browse_thread/thread/3c26e8a5658f22ac)
Added: List of methods in alphabetical order
Fixed: Class-scoped annotations were not recognized when inherited
Added: Deprecated @Configuration and introduced @BeforeSuite/Test/Class/TestMethod
Added: Deprecated @ExpectedExceptions and moved it into @Test
Added: expectedExceptions to @Test, deprecated @ExpectedExceptions
Added: New annotations:  @BeforeSuite, @BeforeTest, etc...
Fixed: Was returning an exit code of 0 if a cyclic graph was detected
Added: Interface org.testng.ITest so that tests can declare a name
Fixed: The Text reporter was reporting the square of the actual number of methods
Fixed: Bug reported by Eran about dependencies with an afterClass method
Added: IHookCallBack now receives the ITestResult in its run() method
Added: Name of suite for command line can be set with -Dtestng.suite.name=xxx
Fixed: TestNGAntTask was hardcoding m_haltOnFSP to true
Fixed: Passing a null parameter caused an NPE in the reports
Added: "listener" to the ant task (and documentation)
Added: if patch-testng-sourcedir.properties is found in the classpath
       with a property "sourcedir" containing a ; separated list of
       directories, this list will override -sourcedir.

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4.7

Added: Maven 2 plug-in
Fixed: Message formattings in TestNG assertion utility class
Fixed: @Factory methods were counted as @Test as well
       http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/TESTNG-51
Fixed: All DataProvider parameters were shown in the HTML report
Fixed: Bug in testng-failed.xml generation
Fixed: <packages> bug when using a jar file to load the test classes
Added: alwaysRun for before @Configuration methods
       http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/TESTNG-35
Fixed: groupless @Configurations were not invoked if a method depends on a group
       http://jira.opensymphony.com/browse/TESTNG-45
Added: beforeGroups/afterGroups to @Configuration

Eclipse plugin:

Added: last contextual launch is available in Eclipse launcher lists
Fixed: 3.2M5 integration (removed dependency on non-existing class)
Fixed: testng-failures.xml generation

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4.6
2006/27/02

Added: Documentation contains the new reports
Added: TestNG.setUseDefaultListeners(boolean)
Added: Descriptions now appear in TextReporter (verbose>=2) and the HTML reports
Added: description attribute to @Test and @Configuration
Added: combined Reporter output in the reports
Added: methods not run in the reports
Added: org.testng.IReporter
Added: threadPoolSize to @Test
Added: Reports now show relative timings (start at 0)
Added: Reports now show different colors depending on the methods' classes
Added: Reports now show all parameters used to invoke the test method
Added: org.testng.Reporter
Added: DataProviders can accept a Method as first parameter
Fixed: Extraneous implicit inclusion of a method

Eclipse plugin:

Added: Run/Debug as TestNG test from the editor contextual menu
Fixed: TESTNG-24: 'Run as testng test' does not appear of the Test annotation does not have a group
Fixed: TESTNG-18: Eclipse plugin ignores Factory annotation
Fixed: TESTNG-21: Show differences when double clicking assertion exceptions
Added: UI allows setting orientation (even more space)
	   http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=17225&messageID=33805#33805
	   
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4.5
2007/07/02

Core:

Fixed: Methods were not implicitly included, only groups
Fixed: Bug with failed parent @Configuration don't skip child @Configuration/@Test invocations
Fixed: Bug with overridding @Configuration methods (both parent and child were run)
Fixed: Bug when overriding beforeClass methods in base class (cyclic graph)
Added: Support for JAAS (see org.testng.IHookable)
Fixed: Problem with nested classes inside <package name="foo.*"
Fixed: If a group is not found, mark the method as a skip instead of aborting
Fixed: testng-failed.xml was not respecting dependencies
Fixed: class/include method in testng.xml didn't work on default package
Fixed: DTD only allowed one <define>
Fixed: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for jMock
Added: dependsOnMethods can contain methods from another class
Fixed: JUnitConverter required -restore, not any more (option is now a no-op)
Fixed: JUnit mode wasn't invoking setName() on test classes
Added: Regular expressions for classes in <package>
Added: Distributed TestNG
Fixed: Command line parameters and testng.xml are now cumulative
Fixed: Reports now work for multiple suites
Fixed: Was ignoring abstract classes even if they have non-abstract instances
Fixed: If setUp() failed, methods were not skipped
Fixed: Was not clearly indicating when beforeSuite fails
Added: @Configuration.inheritGroups
Fixed: inconsistency between testng.xml and objects regarding method selectors

Eclipse plug-in:

New look for the progress view.

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4.4

Core:

Fixed: testng-failures.xml was not excluding methods from base classes
Fixed: Bug in suites of suites for JUnit mode

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4.3

Core:

Fixed: testng-failures.xml was not excluding methods from base classes
Fixed: Bug in suites of suites for JUnit mode
Added: Excluded groups on command line and ant task
Fixed: When including a group, implicitly include groups depended upon
Fixed: When depending on several groups, wasn't skipped if one of them failed
Fixed: Failures weren't reported accurately in the JUnitReports report
Fixed: Wasn't throwing an exception if depending on a non-existing group

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4.2

Core:

Fixed: wasn't excluding methods in base classes
Added: alwaysRun for tests (soft dependencies)
Fixed: Class-level enabled=false were not honored
Fixed: Bug with multiple dataproviders on same class
Fixed: Bug with dataprovider defined in the parent class
Fixed: Bug with dataprovider defined in a subclass
Fixed: Bug with dataprovider defined in an abstract class
Fixed: testng-failures generation was excluding the methods even if a failed test depended on it

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4.1

Core:

Added: @DataProviders can return Iterable<Object[]>
Fixed: Superclass test methods were not called in the presence of a class @Test
Added: Reporter class to log messages in the HTML reports

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4.0
2005/11/10

Core:

Fixed: suite methods now invoked only once in a hierarchy
Added: @DataProvider and @testng.data-provider
Fixed: Interleave order now respected for before/afterClass methods
Added: Can now invoke java -jar testng-2.6.jar <...>
Added: Support for BeanShell
Added: Method Selectors (IMethodSelector)
Fixed: In the absence of dependencies, @Configuration methods respect inheritance
Fixed: Bug in multithreaded dependencies on methods
Fixed: dependsOnGroups wasn't working on regular expressions
Fixed: Bug in <package> when directories contain spaces in their names
Fixed: Introduced a JDK5 dependency in the JDK1.4 build (getEnclosingClass())
Fixed: Output directory in ant task was not honored if it didn't exist
Fixed: Problem with timeout according to 
       http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=6707

Eclipse plug-in:

Fixed: Wasn't handling linked directories correctly
Fixed: Bug in QuickFix implementation
Added: Quick Fix for JUnit conversion (Annotations and JavaDoc)
Fixed: Methods Run as TestNG test
Added: Package level Run as TestNG test
Fixed: Resources from the linked directories are using a wrong path when 
       passed to command line TestNG

IDEA plug-in:

Added: Support for JDK 1.4 (both projects and IDEA itself)
Fixed: Classes that contained only configuration were ignored

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2.5
2005/08/08

Added: ITestListener.onTestStart(ITestResult)
Added: Support for <packages>
Added: Resource files for easier ant taskdefs
Fixed: @Configuration methods were not invoked with individual test methods
Fixed: Bug with ExpectedExceptions
Fixed: Didn't support nested factory classes
Fixed: NPE if -target is omitted with JDK 1.4
Fixed: @Configuration failures in a class would cause other classes to fail
Added: alwaysRun
Fixed: beforeTestClass/afterTestClass were broken for a pathological case
Added: @Configuration(alwaysRun)
Added: JUnitConverter task
Fixed: < and > characters in reports were not escaped

Eclipse plug-in:

Fixed: Class dialog wasn't showing @Factory classes

IDEA plug-in:

First release!

Documentation:

Added: Brand new look!!!
Added: Section on testng.xml
Fixed: Numbering of sections

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2.4
2005/07/05

Changed: New package:  testng.org
Fixed: Bug with @ExpectedException occuring the parallel mode
Fixed: Bug with parameters and beforeTest
Added: IInstanceInfo support
Fixed: methods were not excluded when included by groups
Fixed: testng-failures.xml is now including also the beforeSuite/afterSuite methods
Fixed: generating the testng-failures.xml is now working as expected
Fixed: Factories call all the tests even if some of them fail along the way
Fixed: Better JUnit support (wasn't creating individual instances)
Fixed: dependsOnGroups didn't work across different classes
Added: command line (and Ant) -groups option
Added: @Parameters (and made parameters attribute deprecated)
Added: Parameters for constructors
Fixed: Better interleaving of before/afterTestMethods
Fixed: Ant task
Fixed: TestNGException thrown when TestNG conditions are not fulfilled

Documentation:
- New assert classes
- New ways to launch 
- JUnitConverter documentation
- new beforeSuite/afterSuite

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2.3
2005/04/12

Fixed: Spaces are now legal in JavaDoc comments
Added: documentation for @Factory
Fixed: factories were called multiple times
Added: beforeSuite and afterSuite
Fixed: inheritance and scope now working properly for annotations
Fixed: dependsOnMethods wasn't working for 1.4
Added: Better stack traces
Added: Better syntax for included/excluded methods
Fixed: Better verbose support
Fixed: Various fixes for the Eclipse plug-in
Added: Can specify a class name on the command line
Fixed: Default package bug in JUnitConverter
Added: Regression tests for JUnitConverter
Added: -quiet option to JUnitConverter

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2.2

Fixed: Wasn't handling several testng.xml files correctly
Fixed: Renamed -src to -sourcedir
Fixed: Complains if no sourcedir is specified in 1.4
Added: In 1.4, don't require annotations="javadoc"
Fixed: If setUp fails, complain and mark test methods as skips
Fixed: Dependent methods weren't working for 1.4

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2.1
2005/02/12

Added: Parser can accept an InputStream for testng.xml
Fixed: expected-exceptions now fails if test passes
Fixed: reports now use the suite name in HTML
Added: invocationCount and successPercentage
Added: dependsOnMethods
Added: timeOut works in non-parallel mode

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2.0
2004/12/06

Added: port on JDK 1.4

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1.3

Added: new view:  classes (still experimental)
Added: timeout on methods
Added: thread-count
Added: TestNG is now multithread, see "parallel" in <suite>

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1.2

Added: JUnitConverter
Fixed: Bug with afterClasses (test: AfterClassCalledAtTheEnd)

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1.1

Added: new links for methods and groups in the HTML report
Added: <methods>
Added: <fileset> to <testng>

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1.0
2004/04/28
http://beust.com/weblog/2004/04/28/

Fixed: Updated to the new DTD
Fixed: Suite table of contents displays failures first
Fixed: Bug in afterTestClass
Added: Validating testng.xml
Added: Scoped parameters
Added:  testng.xml
Removed: Property quiet
Changed: Verbose is now an integer
Added:  Dependent methods

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0.9

Added:  Groups of groups
Added:  Groups for Configuration methods
Added:  Parameters

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0.2

Fixed:  Merged TestMethod and TestClass into Test
Added: HTML report
Added: Regexps for groups
Fixed:  Inheritance of methods
Fixed:  ExpectedException is now called ExpectedExceptions