Conditional skipping of TestNG tests

Question

I don\'t have much experience with TestNG annotations, however I am trying to build a test suite using TestNG framework and POM design pattern for a retail website. I am plannin

Answer 1

Since 6.13 throw new SkipException("Skipping the test case"); won't work. I have to set status before throwing exception, otherwise test status will be failure instead of skipped:

iTestResult.setStatus(TestResult.SKIP); throw new SkipException("Skipping the test case");

Probably it will be fixed/changed in next releases, please see https://github.com/cbeust/testng/issues/1632 for details.