Hi gents and ladies,

I'm responsible for allowing unit tests for one of ETL components.I want to acomplish this using testNG with generic java test class and number of test definitions in testng.xmlpassing various parameters to the class.Oracle and ETL guys should be able to add new tests without changing the java code, so we need to use xml suite file instead of annotations.

Question

Is there a way to group tests in testng.xml?(similarly to how it is done with annotations) I mean something like

<group name="first_group">
   <test>
   <class ...>
   <parameter ...>
   </test>
</group>

<group name="second_group">
 <test>
   <class ...>
   <parameter ...>
   </test>
</group>

I've checked the testng.dtd as figured out that similar syntax is not allowed.But is therea workaround to allow grouping?

Thanks in advance