Illegal method name passed to 'dependsOnMethods'

Reports illegal method names passed to the dependsOnMethods attribute in the @Test annotation.

A method name is considered illegal if it can't be resolved into a valid, accessible @Test annotated method in the current class or any of its parent classes.

Example:

  public class SampleTest {
    @Test(dependsOnMethods = "testSpellignError")
    public void testSample() {}
    @Test
    public void testSpellingError(){}
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

dependsOnMethodTestNG

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | TestNG

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection dependsOnMethodTestNG

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025