How to execute other test cases in a TestNG test suite while waiting for one test case execution to finish

Question

I am using selenium webdriver with java and TestNG framework. One of my testcases is to schedule backup and check if backup occurs on scheduled time. after the backup is initiated at given time, it takes 12 min approx to finish backup. I want to switch to other testcases meanwhile . Any ideas on how it can be accomplished using selenium webdriver

Answer 1

Yes you can achieve this through parellel attribute in TestNG. The parallel attribute on the tag can take one of following values:

<suite name="My suite" parallel="methods" thread-count="5">
<suite name="My suite" parallel="tests" thread-count="5">
<suite name="My suite" parallel="classes" thread-count="5">
<suite name="My suite" parallel="instances" thread-count="5">

For more details see testNG doc. http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html#parallel-tests