@BeforeSuite vs @BeforeTest

Issues/Bugs
1

Can anyone please say me the exact difference between @Beforesuite and @BeforeTest? Explain when and where to use each of the one.

2

@Durga_M

This is Appium forum. It has nothing to do with configuration method of TestNG/Junit. Please refer their respective forums

Thanks

3

Before suite will run only once when you run a suite

Before test will run for all the test script written inside the suite

4 
public class ExampleTest {
  @BeforeSuite
  public void runOnce() {
    System.out.println("This is the @BeforeSuite method");
  }

  @BeforeTest
  public void runForEachTest() {
    System.out.println("This is the @BeforeTest method");
  }

  @Test
  public void testOne() {
    System.out.println("This is the testOne method");
  }


  @Test
  public void testTwo() {
    System.out.println("This is the testTwo method");
  }
}

Try running this and see what happens. It’ll give some initial insight into how BeforeSuite is different from BeforeTest.

Additionally, methods tagged with BeforeSuite will run before test methods in OTHER classes of the test suite (assuming you only have 1 test suite).