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Kaspar Fischer commented on SUREFIRE-157: ----------------------------------------- I am experiencing the same problem: org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireExecutionException: null; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException: null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.AbstractTextReporter.testFailed(AbstractTextReporter.java:111) at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:335) at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:317) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGReporter.onTestFailure(TestNGReporter.java:102) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1433) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1417) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.handleInvocationResults(Invoker.java:1152) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:887) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109) at org.testng.TestRunner.runWorkers(TestRunner.java:689) at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:566) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:466) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:301) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:296) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:276) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:191) at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:808) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:776) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:701) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:64) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:99) at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:107) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:285) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:976) According to "mvn -o help:effective-pom" I am using <pluginManagement> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4.2</version> </plugin> </pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4.3</version> <configuration> <forkMode>always</forkMode> <excludeGroups>extended</excludeGroups> <argLine>-javaagent:${settings.localRepository}/salve/salve-agent/2.0-beta1/salve-agent-2.0-beta1.jar</argLine> <useSystemClassloader>true</useSystemClassloader> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> and <dependency> <groupId>org.testng</groupId> <artifactId>testng</artifactId> <version>5.7</version> <classifier>jdk15</classifier> </dependency> I had a look at the source, line 111 on http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/surefire/tags/surefire-2.4.3/surefire-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/report/AbstractTextReporter.java?view=markup ... I also found http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/class-loading.html and changed the above configuration to <useSystemClassloader>false</useSystemClassloader> This didn't solved the issue for me. Any ideas? > Surefire Plugin fails to handle exception thrown from TestNG @BeforeTest > method > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SUREFIRE-157 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-157 > Project: Maven Surefire > Issue Type: Bug > Components: TestNG support > Affects Versions: 2.0 (2.2 plugin), 2.3 > Environment: Windows XP, JDK 1.5, Maven 2.0.4, TestNG 5.1 > Reporter: Manish Shah > Fix For: 2.4 > > > Create a TestNG test with a method as follows: > @BeforeTest > public void beforeTest() { > throw new RuntimeException("Simulate an exception from a beforeTest > method"); > } > When surefire attempts to run this test, the plugin fails with the following > stack trace: > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireExecutionException: null; nested > exception is java.lang.NullPointerException: n > ull > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.report.AbstractTextReporter.testFailed(AbstractTextReporter.java:106) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:299) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:281) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGReporter.onTestFailure(TestNGReporter.java:97) > at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1164) > at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1149) > at > org.testng.internal.Invoker.handleConfigurationFailure(Invoker.java:191) > at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:170) > at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:236) > at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:145) > at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:901) > at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:863) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.executeTestNG(TestNGExecutor.java:64) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGXmlTestSuite.execute(TestNGXmlTestSuite.java:75) > at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:129) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:225) > at > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:747) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira