Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12:test (default-test) on project.

Question

I have been trying from a couple of days to resolve the following error but I am unable to resolve it :(

My module\'s pom.xml file is:

Answer 1

3 years already, but the same thing happened to me and I wanted to contribute with my case. Using the @nikk solution I got better results, but other errors still appeared, although yes, I was allowed to package.

However, my task was to implement the code of a co-worker on the server and it did not happen to him in his test environment, so I decided to investigate a little more since the code was functional and did not correspond to me touching anything .

In the end it turned out that his application inserted mysql tables into a database that did not exist. The solution was as easy as creating such a database and the error disappeared.

Answer 2

It worked for me with version 3.0.0-M1.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
</plugin>

You might need to run it with sudo.

Answer 3

This solved my issue. It was 2.10 in my POM, just updated to 2.19.1 and refresh the POM

Add to your pom :

 <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.19.1</version>
        </plugin>
  </plugins>

In your error code he didn't find surefire plugin so add it

Answer 4

I get exactly the same stacktrace when tests fail. More to the top you should see messages identfying the failing test classes. Or go to

D:\Masters\thesis related papers and tools\junitcategorizer\junitcategorizer.instrument\target\surefire-reports

and have a look at the failure reports. Fix the problems and your build is ok.

Good news : Your poms seem to be ok, Maven can compile and execute tests.

Answer 5

I just adjust the cucumber version, because I had a JUnit dependency in a low version compared with the other version of cucumber in my pom file.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/cucumber-java -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
                <version>6.9.0</version>
            </dependency>
    
            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/cucumber-picocontainer -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
                <version>6.9.0</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
    
            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/cucumber-junit -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
                <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
                <version>6.9.0</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>

Answer 6

HI All can you try adding the below in your POM and then use mvn clean compile and then mvn install.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    <version>4.12</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>