The TestNG team is happy to announce the release of TestNG 2.5.

Highlights of this release:

• A brand new Web site.
• An IDEA plug-in, courtesy of Hani Suleiman and Mark Derricutt.
• An improved Maven plug-in.
• You can now specify entire packages in testng.xml instead of enumerating all your test classes.
• alwaysRun configuration methods:  if a test fails, any configuration methods annotated with this boolean will always be run, regardless of whether something wrong happened during the tests.
• Package support in testng.xml.

The full list of changes is included below.

The Eclipse plug-in has also been updated (2.5.0) and is available from the update site (http://beust.com/weblog/eclipse) or downloadable as a zip file from http://testng.org.

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this release, it’s a pretty major step for TestNG!

_Change list for TestNG 2.5
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Core

• Added: ITestListener.onTestStart(ITestResult)
• Added: Support for <packages>
• Fixed: @Configuration methods were not invoked with individual test methods
• Added: Resource files for easier ant taskdefs
• Fixed: Bug with ExpectedExceptions
• Fixed: Didn’t support nested factory classes
• Fixed: NPE if -target is omitted with JDK 1.4
• Fixed: @Configuration failures in a class would cause other classes to fail
• Fixed: beforeTestClass/afterTestClass were broken for a pathological case
• Added: @Configuration(alwaysRun)
• Added: JUnitConverter task
• Fixed: < and > characters in reports were not escaped

Eclipse plug-in:

• Fixed: Class dialog wasn’t showing @Factory classes

IDEA plug-in:

• First release!

Documentation:

• Added: Brand new look!!!
• Added: Section on testng.xml
• Fixed: Numbering of sections