Cyclic dependency in a code causes exception. Tests aren't performed and IDEA informs that all tests passed. IDEA doesn't help to find where is a problem. "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\bin\java" -ea -Didea.launcher.port=7534 "-Didea.launcher.bin.path=E:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3\bin" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "E:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3\plugins\testng\lib\testng-jdk15.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\deploy.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\javaws.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\management-agent.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\plugin.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\resources.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\test\tests;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\production\tests;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\testng-5.7-jdk15.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\test\common;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\production\common;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\jaxrpc.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\commons-discovery-0.2.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\mail.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\JSAP-2.1.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\log4j-1.2.13.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\saaj.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\axis.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\annotations.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\dom4j-1.6.1.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\common\lib\activation.jar;E:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3\lib\javaee.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\tests\lib\jdom.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\tests\lib\axis-ant.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\tests\lib\javac2.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\tests\lib\asm-commons.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\test\ts;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\production\ts;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\test\gtls;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\production\gtls;E:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3\lib\j2ee.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\jta.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\commons-collections-2.1.1.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\javassist.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate-validator.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\antlr-2.7.6.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate-commons-annotations.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate3-client-3.2.0.cr5.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hsqldb-1.8.0.7.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\mysql-connector-java-5.1.5-bin.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\asm.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\cglib-2.1.3.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate-tools.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\c3p0-0.9.1.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate-annotations.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate3.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\ejb3-persistence.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\hibernate-entitymanager.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\gtls\lib\jsr181.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\test\client;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\production\client;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\client\lib\appframework-1.0.3.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\client\lib\swing-worker-1.1.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\client\lib\swing-layout-1.0.3.jar;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\test\client.tiny;E:\Java\IdeaProjects\trms2\classes\production\client.tiny;E:\Java\IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3\lib\idea_rt.jar" com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG -port 5000 -sourcedir E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/client/src;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/client/src/test;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/client.tiny/src;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/common/src;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/gtls/src;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/gtls/src/test;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/tests/src;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/ts/src;E:/Java/IdeaProjects/trms2/ts/src/test "C:\Documents and Settings\User\.IntelliJIdea70\system\temp-testng-customsuite.xml" [Parser] Running: C:\Documents and Settings\User\.IntelliJIdea70\system\temp-testng-customsuite.xml =============================================== Custom suite Total tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Skips: 0 =============================================== org.testng.TestNGException: Cyclic graph of methods at org.testng.internal.Graph.topologicalSort(Graph.java:117) at org.testng.internal.MethodHelper.topologicalSort(MethodHelper.java:494) at org.testng.internal.MethodHelper.sortMethods(MethodHelper.java:544) at org.testng.internal.MethodHelper.internalCollectAndOrderMethods(MethodHelper.java:77) at org.testng.internal.MethodHelper.collectAndOrderMethods(MethodHelper.java:49) at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:337) at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:216) at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:178) at org.testng.TestRunner.<init>(TestRunner.java:139) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG$1.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG.java:102) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG$DelegatingTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG.java:154) at org.testng.SuiteRunner$ProxyTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:494) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:235) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:191) at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:808) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:776) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:701) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.run(RemoteTestNG.java:73) at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:124) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90) Process finished with exit code 0