It appears that each class can only be declared once in the list, even if different methods are included on each declaration, otherwise you will see this error message :( Using latest TestNG 6.8.8. I was able to get this to work with @Test(priority=#) with the specific priority on each test method. See http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html#annotations.
My use case: crud tests for entities. Each Entity has its own test class with 4 methods (so I can test only a single entity CRUD in isolation), but I also want to run the overall suite (will fail due to integrity constraints and different generated ID keys unless they are run in exactly the right order).
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