Surefire Maven plugin: “Corrupted STDOUT by directly writing to native stream in forked JVM”

Question

My JUnit tests are failing when running them through Maven and the Surefire plugin (version information below). I see the error message:

Corrupted STDOUT by direc         


        

Answer 1

The error is due to JRE incompatibility. Lower the version of JRE to 7 or 8.