How do I get the name of the test method that was run in a testng tear down method?

Question

Basically, I have a teardown method that I want to log to the console which test was just run. How would I go about getting that string?

I can get the class name, bu

Answer 1

Another (although not as simple as Cedric's answer) way that TestNG supports this is to register a listener:

@Listeners({MethodListener.class})
public class ListenerTest {

  @Test
  public void someTest() {
  }

}

Where the listener could look like this:

public class MethodListener implements IInvokedMethodListener {

  @Override
  public void beforeInvocation(IInvokedMethod method, ITestResult testResult) {

  }

  @Override
  public void afterInvocation(IInvokedMethod method, ITestResult testResult) {
    System.out.println(method.getTestMethod().getMethodName());
  }
}

This particular listener would print the method name (i.e. someTest) to the console. It would be executed after every executed test.

If you are generating the testSuite programmatically then you can add the listener as follows instead of adding @Listeners({MethodListener.class}) over each test class

    List listeners = new ArrayList();
    listeners.add(MethodListener.class.getName());
    testSuite.setListeners(listeners);