TestNG & Selenium: Separate tests into “groups”, run ordered inside each group

Question

We use TestNG and Selenium WebDriver to test our web application.

Now our problem is that we often have several tests that need to run in a certain order, e.g.:

Answer 1

Try with depends on group along with depends on method. Add all methods in same class in one group. For example

@Test(groups={"cls1","other"}) 
public void cls1test1(){
}
@Test(groups={"cls1","other"}, dependsOnMethods="cls1test1", alwaysrun=true) 
public void cls1test2(){
}

In class 2
@Test(groups={"cls2","other"}, dependsOnGroups="cls1", alwaysrun=true) 
public void cls2test1(){
}
@Test(groups={"cls2","other"}, dependsOnMethods="cls2test1", dependsOnGroups="cls1", alwaysrun=true) 
public void cls2test2(){
}