Small tests should be isolated from each other, but this constraint gets in a way of medium and large tests (especially for web testing). Take a look at what users are doing with Selenium + TestNG. Also, dependencies and high parallelism are not mutually exclusive, it's unfortunate that this rumor is still around. Here is why: http://beust.com/weblog/2009/11/28/hard-core-multicore-with-testng/ Rep