Execute Testng.xml using batch file

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In previous tutorial we have seen executing testng.xml tests from command line. Now here we will look into executing testng.xml using batch file (.bat) file.

A batch file (.bat) is used in DOS and Windows, which is an unformatted text file that consists of a series of commands to be executed by the command line interpreter.

Pre-Requisite:

Selenium
TestNG
Maven
Java 11
Maven Complier Plugin
Maven Surefire Plugin
Notepad

Let us first create some tests in a class.

import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class TestNGRunFromCommandLine {
	
	 WebDriver driver;
	 
	    @BeforeTest
	    public void setUp() {
	        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",
	                "C:\\Users\\Vibha\\Software\\geckodriver\\geckodriver.exe");
	 
	        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
	        driver.get("https://opensource-demo.orangehrmlive.com/"); 
	        driver.manage().window().maximize();
	    }
	 
	    @Test(description = "This test validates title of login functionality", priority = 0)
	    public void verifyLoginPage() {
	 
	        String expectedTitle = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='logInPanelHeading']")).getText(); 
	        System.out.println("Title :" + expectedTitle);
	        assertTrue(expectedTitle.equalsIgnoreCase("LOGIN Panel12"));
	    }
	 
	    @Test(description = "This test validates  successful login to Home page", priority = 1)
	    public void verifyHomePage() throws InterruptedException {
	 
	        System.out.println("Username Entered");
	        driver.findElement(By.name("txtUsername")).sendKeys("Admin");
	 
	        System.out.println("Password Entered");
	        driver.findElement(By.name("txtPassword")).sendKeys("admin123");         
	        driver.findElement(By.id("btnLogin")).submit();
	        
	        Thread.sleep(2000);
	 
	        String newPageText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='content']/div/div[1]/h1")).getText();
	        System.out.println("newPageText :" + newPageText);
	        assertThat(newPageText, containsString("Dashboard"));
	    }
	 
	    @AfterTest
	    public void teardown() {
	 
	        driver.quit();
	    }
	 
	}

The below is the testng.xml file which has a class that we have created above and we will be invoking this xml file using batch file (.bat).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "https://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite">
  <test name="Test">
    <classes>
      <class name="TestNG_Demo.TestNGRunFromCommandLine"/>
    </classes>
  </test> 
</suite>

How to create a batch file?

Step 1: Open notepad
Step 2: Paste the below lines of code – You may need to add your project location. In the example, project location is set as C:\Users\Vibha\Projects\Vibha_Personal\ParallelTestsTestNG
Step 3: Save the file as ‘TestNGProject.bat’ in location that you want to save.

cd C:\Users\Vibha\Projects\Vibha_Personal\ParallelTestsTestNG
mvn compile test

Now, to run the tests, double click on the TestNGProject.bat file and all the commands mentioned in the file will be executed one by one.

As we know, TestNG generates lot of Reports automatically. We are going to look into 2 reports – emailable-report.html and index.html. The reports are generated under surefire-reports folder within target directory.