TestNG annotation BeforeMethod and Aftermethod Issue in Selenium JAVA

Question

I have written the following test using the testNG annotations:

public class Create {
    
    WebDriver driver;
    
    @BeforeClass
    
    public void testsetup() {
        
        WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
    }
        
        @BeforeMethod
        public void Login() {
        driver.get("www.xyz.com");//just an example
    }
    
    @Test(priority=3)
    
    public void AccountCreate() {
        System.out.println("Test3");
    }

        }
    
    @Test(priority=1)
    public void CompanyCreate() {
        System.out.println("Test1");
    }

    @Test(priority=2)
    public void VerifyResult() {
        System.out.println("Test2");
            }
    }
    
    @AfterMethod
    public void Logout() {
        
        System.out.println("print after method");
    }
    
    @AfterClass
    public void CloseBrowser() {
        driver.close();
        
    }
}

The o/p is like this:

print after method
test1
print after method
test2
print after method
test3

Observations; @BeforeClass executes first, then @Beforemethod executes, then @Aftermethod and then @Test(priority=1), @Aftermethod then @Beforemethod and then @Test(priority=2) and so on.

But after all the @Test run, then only the @Aftermethod executes. Anyone, please help me on this. I really couldn't find what exactly is the problem.

Answer 1

There is no issue in your code block. I took your code, simplified it a bit replacing the Browsing Context line with Sysout() statements and here is the execution result:

• Code Block:

  public class Aftermethod_Test {
  
      WebDriver driver;
  
      @BeforeClass
      public void testsetup() {
  
          System.out.println("print before class");
      }
  
      @BeforeMethod
      public void Login() {
          System.out.println("print before method");
      }
  
      @Test(priority=3)
  
      public void AccountCreate() {
          System.out.println("Test3");
      }
  
      @Test(priority=1)
      public void CompanyCreate() {
          System.out.println("Test1");
      }
  
      @Test(priority=2)
      public void VerifyResult() {
          System.out.println("Test2");
      }
  
      @AfterMethod
      public void Logout() {
          System.out.println("print after method");
      }
  
      @AfterClass
      public void CloseBrowser() {
          System.out.println("print after class");
      }
  }
  

• Console Output:

  print before class
  print before method
  Test1
  print after method
  print before method
  Test2
  print after method
  print before method
  Test3
  print after method
  print after class
  PASSED: CompanyCreate
  PASSED: VerifyResult
  PASSED: AccountCreate
  
  ===============================================
      Default test
      Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
  ===============================================
  
  
  ===============================================
  Default suite
  Total tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
  ===============================================
  

Analysis

This observation looks just perfect and as per your expectation.

Your usecase

Earlier it was observed at times Sysout() from @Test reaches to the console later then @Aftermethod. A simple solution would be to update your test environment with all the latest binaries:

• TestNG: <version>6.10</version>
• JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u251.
• Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.

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Reference

You can find a detailed relevant discussion in:

• TestNG - Order of Tests execution in selenium script
• How to demonstrate a real time example of using BeforeTest, AfterTest, BeforeSuite, AfterSuite, BeforeClass, AfterClass annotations in TestNG