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Fixes #3494.

Phase 4 of eight in #3446. test.dependent moves to org.testng.dependent, and test.testng317
joins it. 95 files, 22 executable.

The move itself was routine. What follows is what the move turned up.

Three tests had stopped running. All three pass now.

test.testng317.VerifyTest was in no suite file and asserted nothing. It ran TestNG over two
classes and printed a count.

Its samples set up a real question. ClassA and ClassB both declare sameNameE, and
ClassA.sameNameF depends on "sameNameE" by name alone. So the two are told apart only by the
class that declares them. The observed order:

ClassB.sameNameAA → uniqueNameBB → uniqueNameCC → uniqueNameDD → ClassB.sameNameE
ClassA.sameNameA  → uniqueNameB  → uniqueNameC  → uniqueNameD  → ClassA.sameNameE
                  → sameNameF → sameNameG → sameNameH

sameNameF waits for ClassA.sameNameE, not for ClassB.sameNameE, which ran five positions
earlier. The test asserts the whole order, with a comment on the line that matters. It is now
DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest. GitHub #317 is a pull request, so the old number pointed at
nothing a reader can open.

MissingGroupTest and MissingMethodTest were commented out in testng.xml. Both expected a
skip. TestNG refuses the run instead, which is exactly what their own method names say
(verifyThatExceptionIsThrownIf...). The bodies had drifted from the names.

Both now assert the exception and the method that caused it. Between them they record something
nothing else in the suite did: alwaysRun and ignoreMissingDependencies are not
interchangeable. alwaysRun means run when a dependency fails. It does not excuse a dependency
that was never there.

Two things a reviewer should be told, not have to find

DependentTest asserted an order TestNG does not promise. testDownstreamDependencyRetrieval
and testUpstreamDependencyRetrieval used containsExactly on a dependency list. Renaming the
package changed that order, which is the proof it was never a contract. GITHUB-893 is about which
methods are dependencies, so both are order-free now.

This is the second phase to find one of these. Phase 3 found the same shape in
FailedInvocationCountTest. Phases 5 to 8 will find more.

My reference rewrite has a blind spot. Three expected messages in DependentTest named the old
package inside a string beginning \n. The rewrite skips a name preceded by a word character, so it
does not match inside a longer identifier, and the n of \n is a word character. It left all
three behind and the tests failed.

I checked every earlier phase for the same miss. They are clean; no earlier feature had a class name
written straight after an escape. The gap in the tool is still there, and phases 5 to 8 should watch
for it.

The plan gains two corrections

Its command for finding executable classes did not strip XML comments. That is how two disabled
tests were filed as executable in this phase. VerifyTestExecution.declaredClasses() already strips
them, so the build and the plan disagreed about what "declared" means.

Registering a class now checks the insert point is outside a comment. I put one inside a comment
block first. It compiles, passes review, and never runs, and the guard does not catch it either,
because it strips comments before reading.

Four more commented-out classes are recorded for the phases that meet them. One of them,
test.issue565.Issue565Test, already has a verified reference in docs/test-issue-references.md
while being switched off.

Issue references

Eight, all already in the code, all proven, all real issues. Phase 4 adds none. The 19 registered
classes in test.dependent without a description have introducing commits that name no issue at
all, so there is nothing to prove.

Every row in docs/test-issue-references.md is generated from the GitHub API and from git, never
typed.

Evidence the phase lost nothing

The execution inventory has 65 removals, and every one pairs with a rename, with no change of status
or count. It has 3 additions, and all three are the revived tests. 1635 entries in, 1638 out.

Checks run locally

  • full build, 19560 tests, 0 failures
  • verifyTestExecution
  • scripts/test/run-all.sh, 54 tests across three suites
  • ./gradlew writingStyleCheckChanges, no findings in 99 files
  • scripts/refs-in-sync.sh

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  • Add test case(s)
  • Update CHANGES.txt — not needed, this changes no shipped behaviour
  • Auto applied styling via ./gradlew autostyleApply
  • Checked the wording of any javadoc, comments or docs you touched

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing method and group dependencies, including ignoreMissingDependencies and alwaysRun scenarios.
    • Corrected dependency resolution when methods share the same name across classes.
    • Improved recognition of test references when annotations contain comments, strings, or parentheses.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for dependency ordering, missing dependencies, and issue-related scenarios.
    • Activated additional dependency tests and restored related assertions.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for test registration validation and documented dependency test organization.

depth_of counted every bracket, including ones inside a string literal. A
description reading "GITHUB-765: expected (" left the parser at the wrong
depth, so a real description looked missing.

It skips characters inside a string now, escapes included. Three tests
cover it: an open bracket in the text, the same over three lines, and a
closing bracket alone. Two of them failed before the fix.

The failure was a false rejection rather than a false pass, so nothing
wrong was ever accepted. juherr found it on the phase 3 review and asked
for the test first.
…ake three tests

Phase 4 of eight. test.dependent moves to org.testng.dependent, and
test.testng317 joins it.

Three tests in this scope had stopped running, and all three pass now.

test.testng317.VerifyTest was in no suite file and asserted nothing. It
ran TestNG over two classes and printed a count. Its samples set up a
real question: ClassA and ClassB both declare sameNameE, and
ClassA.sameNameF depends on "sameNameE" by name alone. The dependency
resolves inside its own class, and the test asserts the whole order. It
is now DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest. GitHub testng-team#317 is a pull
request, so the old number pointed at nothing.

MissingGroupTest and MissingMethodTest were commented out in testng.xml.
Both expected a skip. TestNG refuses the run instead, which is what their
own method names say, so the bodies had drifted from the names. Both now
assert the exception and the method that caused it. They record something
nothing else did: alwaysRun means run when a dependency fails, and does
not excuse a dependency that was never there. Only
ignoreMissingDependencies does that.

DependentTest asserted the order of a dependency list. Renaming the
package changed that order, which shows it was never a contract.
GITHUB-893 is about which methods are dependencies, so the assertion is
order-free now. This is the second phase to find an order assertion that
TestNG does not promise.

Three of its expected messages named the old package inside a string
starting with \n. The reference rewrite skips a name preceded by a word
character, and the n of \n is one, so it left them behind. The earlier
phases were checked for the same miss and have none.

The plan gains two corrections. Its command for finding executable
classes did not strip XML comments, which is how two disabled tests were
filed as executable. Registering a class now checks the insert point is
outside a comment, because a class registered inside one compiles, passes
review and never runs. Four more commented-out classes are recorded for
the phases that meet them.

The inventory gains three lines and loses none. Every one of its 65
removals pairs with a rename, with no change of status or count.
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The pull request relocates dependent tests and sample classes to org.testng.dependent, restores missing dependency and shared-name coverage, updates XML/YAML suites and execution records, and improves comment-aware reference validation.

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Dependent test relocation and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reference validation
scripts/refs-in-sync.sh, scripts/test/refs-in-sync-test.sh, docs/*
Comment stripping and annotation parsing now ignore commented code and handle parentheses in strings. Relocation documentation records phase-four checks.
Package relocation
testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/..., testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/samples/...
Dependent tests and samples move from legacy packages to org.testng.dependent namespaces. References, imports, and dependency assertions are updated.
Dependency behavior coverage
testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/Missing*Test.java, testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest.java, testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/samples/missingdeps/...
Tests cover qualified dependency names, missing groups and methods, ignoreMissingDependencies, and alwaysRun.
Suite and execution records
testng-core/src/test/resources/testng.xml, testng-yaml/src/test/resources/*, testng-core/execution-inventory.txt
Suite class references and execution records use the relocated classes. Previously commented tests are enabled.

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Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The shared-name dependency test now checks independent chains rather than a global execution order, so it is ready to merge.

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- Line 39: Update the assertion in DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest to avoid
requiring a global execution order: verify that all expected methods ran, then
separately assert only that ClassA.sameNameE executes before ClassA.sameNameF.
Preserve coverage of same-name dependency resolution without constraining the
relative ordering of the ClassA and ClassB chains.

In `@testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/samples/GitHub261Test.java`:
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the global execution-order requirement.

containsExactly requires the complete ClassB chain to run before the complete ClassA chain. The dependency contract only requires each dependency to run before its dependent method. A valid scheduler change can fail this test without breaking same-name resolution.

Assert that all expected methods ran. Then assert only the required relation that ClassA.sameNameE precedes ClassA.sameNameF.

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`@testng-core/src/test/java/org/testng/dependent/DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest.java`
at line 39, Update the assertion in DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest to avoid
requiring a global execution order: verify that all expected methods ran, then
separately assert only that ClassA.sameNameE executes before ClassA.sameNameF.
Preserve coverage of same-name dependency resolution without constraining the
relative ordering of the ClassA and ClassB chains.

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Three findings, two in refs-in-sync.sh and one in a test written the same
day.

The parser read any line holding "@test(" as the start of an annotation.
A commented-out annotation satisfied a document row that no live code
carried, and so did an example inside a javadoc. It strips comments
before reading a line now. A block comment carries across lines, because
a javadoc continuation line has no marker of its own. It walks the line
rather than cutting at the first //, so a // inside a string stays text.

The same change fixes a false rejection. A bracket inside a comment
within a multi-line @test raised the depth, the annotation never closed,
and a real description was reported missing.

DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest asserted the order of all thirteen
methods. That fixes the interleaving of two chains with no dependency
between them, which nothing promises. It asserts each chain as a
subsequence now, and states the real claim directly: ClassB.sameNameE
runs before ClassA.sameNameF and does not release it.

That last one is the third over-strict order assertion in this phase. The
other two were already here and this migration exposed them. I wrote this
one an hour after replacing them.

Three tests cover the parser change, and reverting it fails them. Removing
the dependency from ClassA.sameNameF fails the weakened assertion, so it
still catches what it exists for.
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/code-review found three things after I opened this. All three are fixed in dbac4f7de.

refs-in-sync.sh read comments as code. A line holding // @Test(description = "GITHUB-765") satisfied a document row that no live annotation carried. So did an example inside a javadoc. It strips comments before reading a line now. A block comment carries across lines, because a javadoc continuation line has no marker of its own, and it walks the line rather than cutting at the first //, so a // inside a string stays text.

The same change fixes a false rejection. A bracket inside a comment within a multi-line @Test raised the depth, the annotation never closed, and a real description looked missing.

And one in a test I wrote for this phase. DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest asserted the order of all thirteen methods. That fixes the interleaving of two chains with no dependency between them, which nothing promises. It asserts each chain as a subsequence now, and states the real claim directly:

assertThat(m_methods.indexOf(b + "sameNameE"))
    .isLessThan(m_methods.indexOf(a + "sameNameF"));

ClassB.sameNameE runs first and does not release ClassA.sameNameF. That is the whole point of the fixture.

Worth saying plainly: that is the third over-strict order assertion in this phase. The other two were already in the tree and the rename exposed them. I wrote this one an hour after replacing them.

Removing the dependency from ClassA.sameNameF fails the weakened assertion, so it still catches what it exists for. Three tests cover the parser change, and reverting it fails them. 57 script tests in total.

All 14 checks are green, including the same hashcode leg and tr_TR. Those two matter here: the revived tests assert exception message text and a run order, and neither had ever run outside my machine.

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Thanks for this phase. The relocation itself looks consistent and the latest change correctly removed the unsupported global ordering assumption between the two independent dependency chains.

I still see a few coverage issues that should be checked before merging:

  1. GitHub261Test looks incorrectly classified as a sample. It is an actual test driver (@Test, extends SimpleBaseTest, runs nested TestNG and asserts the result) for the real regression described by GitHub #261. Under org.testng.dependent.samples it is excluded by the Gradle test configuration, and I could not find another test exercising its samples. Please move/register it as an executable test, or explain where equivalent coverage now exists. Ideally verify this with a red/green run.

  2. DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest does not appear to prove the specific class-local dependency resolution it is intended to protect. If the isTopLevelOrSameTestClass filtering were removed and sameNameF became dependent on both ClassA.sameNameE and ClassB.sameNameE, all current ordering assertions could still pass. Please verify the test goes red for that actual mutation, not only when the dependency is removed entirely. A direct assertion on sameNameF's upstream dependencies (e.g. using the existing DependencyTrackingListener) would make this deterministic and explicitly prove that only ClassA.sameNameE is selected.

  3. Please isolate the missing-dependency scenarios. MissingGroupTest/MissingMethodTest currently combine a method that aborts the run with methods using ignoreMissingDependencies, so the tests do not actually prove that the ignored cases execute successfully. MissingMethodTest also documents alwaysRun=true as not tolerating a nonexistent method, while MethodHelper.findDependedUponMethods() currently explicitly continues when m.isAlwaysRun() is true. Please verify the intended behavior and add separate red/green coverage for:

    • a regular missing dependency -> exception;
    • ignoreMissingDependencies=true -> method runs;
    • alwaysRun=true -> whichever behavior is intentionally supported/documented.

For each point, please fix/add the coverage if applicable; if the current behavior/test is intentional, please explain why the concern does not apply and, where possible, demonstrate it with a red/green regression test.

Three points from juherr, all valid.

GitHub261Test was filed as a sample. It is a test: it extends
SimpleBaseTest, runs a nested TestNG and asserts the result. It had never
run, and the move made that worse, because the build excludes
org/testng/**/samples/**. It moves to org.testng.dependent, is
registered, and passes. That is the fourth test this phase brings back.

DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest proved nothing. It asserted an order,
and an order holds whether sameNameF waits for ClassA.sameNameE or for
both. It reads the declared dependency now, through an IMethodInterceptor.
A listener cannot: ITestNGMethod#upstreamDependencies() answers the
declared dependencies to an interceptor, and after scheduling it also
answers the order preserve-order imposes. Reading it from a listener
reported ClassA.sameNameA depending on all five ClassB methods.

The class comment named the wrong mechanism twice before this. The name
is not ambiguous to TestNG at all: DependencyMap keys on the qualified
name, so the two sameNameE are separate keys. The choice still matters.
Renaming ClassA.sameNameE makes sameNameF resolve to ClassB.sameNameE
with no error, so a lookup that grew less specific would be silent.

MissingGroupTest and MissingMethodTest each mixed two cases in one run.
A run stops at the first method it refuses, so the ignoreMissingDependencies
cases were never shown to run. Six tests now, one case each, over six
samples that carry one case each. The two mixed samples are gone, along
with the dead main methods nobody called.

That work settled what alwaysRun does. It never helps: the run stops for a
missing method and for a missing group. MethodHelper.findDependedUponMethods
skips its own check when isAlwaysRun() is true, and DependencyMap then
throws because it never asks. Two places decide one thing and disagree.
Filed as testng-team#3506, and the six tests pin today's behaviour.

The inventory gains nine lines and loses three. The three are the old
method names of the two rewritten tests.
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All three are valid. Fixed in 2d607b5a7.

GitHub261Test. You are right, and it was worse than unregistered. It had never run, and my move put it under samples, which the build excludes. So it went from ignored to unreachable. It is in org.testng.dependent now, registered, and it passes. That makes four tests this phase brings back.

The shared-names test proved nothing. Also right. An order holds whether sameNameF waits for ClassA.sameNameE or for both. It reads the declared dependency now.

Two corrections, though, and both cost me time so they may save you some.

DependencyTrackingListener reads the wrong set. ITestNGMethod#upstreamDependencies() says in its javadoc that an interceptor is given the declared dependsOnMethods and dependsOnGroups, and that after scheduling the set also covers the order preserve-order imposes. Read from a listener it reported ClassA.sameNameA depending on all five ClassB methods. So the recorder is an IMethodInterceptor.

Your mutation cannot fail. isTopLevelOrSameTestClass returns true when the candidate's class has no enclosing class. ClassA and ClassB are both top-level, so it passes both and separates nothing. It is there for nested classes, per GITHUB-3222. I removed it and both versions of the test still passed.

I then guessed the DependencyMap filter and was wrong too. The real answer is that DependencyMap keys on the qualified name, so the two sameNameE are separate keys and never compete.

The fixture's premise still holds. Renaming ClassA.sameNameE makes sameNameF resolve to ClassB.sameNameE with no error, so a lookup that grew less specific would be silent, and this test would catch it. What I cannot give you is a mutation that flips only the resolution and leaves the fixture intact. I did not find one, so there is no red-green proof for that point. Saying so rather than implying otherwise.

The Missing* tests mixed cases. Right again. A run stops at the first method it refuses, so the ignoreMissingDependencies cases were never shown to run. Six tests now, one case each, over six samples that carry one case each. The two mixed samples are gone, with the dead main methods nobody called.

That work answered your question about alwaysRun. It never helps:

Case Result
missing method, no flag throws, from MethodHelper
missing method, ignoreMissingDependencies runs
missing method, alwaysRun throws, from DependencyMap
missing group, no flag throws, from DependencyMap
missing group, ignoreMissingDependencies runs
missing group, alwaysRun throws, from DependencyMap

You are right that MethodHelper:193 continues when isAlwaysRun() is true. DependencyMap then throws anyway, because it never asks. The first gate opens and the second does not exist. The two messages differ, which is how you can see it.

I cannot decide which behaviour is intended, so I did not put a guess in a comment — the last comment I wrote about alwaysRun was wrong for exactly that reason. Filed as #3506 with both code paths and the six results. The tests pin today's behaviour, so a change shows as a failure.

The execution inventory gains nine lines and loses three. The three are the old method names of the two rewritten tests. All 14 checks are green, including both tr_TR legs, which matters because six of the new tests assert exception message text.

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Thanks for addressing the previous review. I rechecked the latest changes and the three blocking points are now properly covered:

  • GitHub261Test is back in the executable package, registered and exercising the #261 regression.
  • DependsOnMethodsWithSharedNamesTest now asserts the actual declared dependency of ClassA.sameNameF, instead of inferring it from execution order. This directly protects the behavior the test is meant to cover.
  • Missing method/group dependencies are now isolated into independent cases, so regular missing dependencies, ignoreMissingDependencies, and alwaysRun are each actually exercised. The alwaysRun inconsistency is also explicitly tracked in #3506 instead of being silently redefined in this relocation.

The earlier CodeRabbit findings are addressed/outdated, and I do not see another actionable issue in the latest changes.

The new tests are materially better regression guards than the previous versions. In particular, future changes to dependency resolution or missing-dependency handling should now fail the corresponding focused tests rather than being masked by another case in the same run.

Looks good to me.

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krmahadevan merged commit 7ab76de into testng-team:master Sep 11, 2026
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