TestNG with test libraries

[David DeHaven]

>> We have a directory marked as TestNG tests but some helper classes outside that directory that we would like to use. Since TestNG tests don't use the @test (or can they?) is there a way to tell jtreg/testng to add the library to the classpath when building/running?
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>> -DrD-
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> 
> Are you using the TEST.properties mechanism to declare a directory full of just TestNG tests?
> 
> Assuming you are following the convention to put a TEST.proiperties file in the root dir of your TestNG hierarchy, with an entry like
>    TestNG.dirs = .
> 
> add another property
>    lib.dirs = <path>
> 
> where <path> is what you might otherwise put in a @library tag, i.e.  a path that does not begin with '/', which with be evaluated relative to the immediately enclosing directory, or a path that does begin with '/', which will be evaluated relative to the root directory of the test suite (i.e. the directory containing the TEST.ROOT file).

Oh, right, I didn't think of that. We're using TEST.properties to set up the addReads arguments...

-DrD-