... For this particular use case, I've found @Ignore generally useful. I also really love Kevin Lawrence's idea of marking tests with bug numbers. He does it
... Georg, We came very close to adding an ExcludeCategories annotation. However, we decided to stay at a minimal feature set for Categories in the initial
... For what it's worth, excluding tests is a very popular TestNG features. For example, I use it when a few tests are broken and need to remain so for a