@BeforeClass and inheritance - order of execution

Question

I have an abstract base class, which I use as a base for my unit tests (TestNG 5.10). In this class, I initialize the whole environment for my tests, setting up database map

Answer 1

Why don't you try to create an abstract method doSpecialInit() in your super class, called from your BeforeClass annotated method in superclass.

So developpers inheriting your class is forced to implement this method.