How to use testNG @Parameters in @BeforeSuite to read resource file

Question

I am using testNG with Selenium webdriver2.0.

In my testNG.xml I have

Answer 1

Looks like your config-file parameter is not defined at the level. There are several ways to solve this: 1. Make sure the element is defined within tag but outside of any :

2. If you want to have the default value for the parameter in the Java code despite the fact it is specified in testng.xml or not, you can add @Optional annotation to the method parameter:

@BeforeSuite
@Parameters( {"config-file"} )
public void initFramework(@Optional("src/test/resources/config.properties/") String configfile) {
    //method implementation here
}

EDIT (based on posted testng.xml):

Option 1:

Option 2:

@BeforeTest
@Parameters( {"config-file"} )
public void initFramework(@Optional("src/test/resources/config.properties/") String configfile) {
    //method implementation here
}

In any case, I would recommend not having two parameters with almost identical names, identical values, and different scope.