Error executing testng.xml through CLI : Could not find or load main class org.testng.TestNG

Question

Before I get into it, I\'m a newbie with selenium and so on. I have looked up all the answers to this issue and still haven\'t been able to fix the problem. My %claspath% an

Answer 1

The simplest way to execute your testng.xml is as follows :

• Get your Project Location from your IDE i.e. Eclipse, through Windows Explorer go to the Project Location and create a directory lib .
• Dump all the libraries (Selenium jars, TestNG) in the lib directory.

• From Project Directory, through CLI provide the following classpath:

  C:\Users\keating99\workspace\FdimTests>set classpath=C:\Users\keating99\workspace\FdimTests\bin;C:\Users\keating99\workspace\FdimTests\lib\*;
  

• Now, execute testng.xml as follows :

  C:\Users\keating99\workspace\FdimTests>java org.testng.TestNG testng.xml
  

• Observe the Testcase gets executed.