How to give System property to my test via Gradle and -D

The -P flag is for gradle properties, and the -D flag is for JVM properties. Because the test may be forked in a new JVM, the -D argument passed to gradle will not be propagated to the test - it sounds like that is the behavior you are seeing.

You can use the systemProperty in your test block as you have done but base it on the incoming gradle property by passing it with it -P:

test {    systemProperty "cassandra.ip", project.getProperty("cassandra.ip")}

or alternatively, if you are passing it in via -D

test {    systemProperty "cassandra.ip", System.getProperty("cassandra.ip")}

Came across this very much problem, except i don't want to list all properties given on the commandline in the gradle script again. Therefore i send all system properties to my test

task integrationTest(type: Test) {    useTestNG()    options {        systemProperties(System.getProperties())    }}

I had a case where I needed to pass multiple system properties into the test JVM but not all (didn't want to pass in irrelevant ones). Based on the above answers, and by using subMap to filter the ones I needed, this worked for me:

task integrationTest(type: Test) {    // ... Do stuff here ...    systemProperties System.getProperties().subMap(['PROP1', 'PROP2'])}

In this example, only PROP1 and PROP2 will be passed in, if they exist in gradle's JVM.