Analyse what is causing Gradle failure when org.testng.util.Strings.join() is removed

[krmahadevan]

TestNG Version

Note: only the latest version is supported

This is on the master branch

Expected behavior

There should be no NoSuchMethodError that gets triggered by Gradle build when org.testng.util.Strings.join(java.lang.String, java.lang.String[])' is removed.

Actual behavior

Currently we are seeing a NoSuchMethodError when we remove the deprecated method org.testng.util.Strings.join(java.lang.String, java.lang.String[])'

See here for more details.

Is the issue reproducible on runner?

• Shell
• Maven
• Gradle
• Ant
• Eclipse
• IntelliJ
• NetBeans

Test case sample

Please, share the test case (as small as possible) which shows the issue

Contribution guidelines

Incase you plan to raise a pull request to fix this issue, please make sure you refer our Contributing section for detailed set of steps.