Gili created SUREFIRE-931: ----------------------------- Summary: Surefire crashes if test depends on unknown group Key: SUREFIRE-931 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-931 Project: Maven Surefire Issue Type: Bug Components: TestNG support Affects Versions: 2.12.4 Reporter: Gili Attachments: TestFailed.zip
Unzip and run the attached testcase. Surefire throws the following exception: {code} Configuring TestNG with: org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.conf.TestNG652Configurator@6127ffd7 org.apache.maven.surefire.util.SurefireReflectionException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; nested exception is java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: null java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:115) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:75) Caused by: org.testng.TestNGException: DependencyMap::Method "AppTest.removeNonExistentLocation()[pri:0, instance:null(com.mycompany.testfailed.AppTest)]" depends on nonexistent group "getLocation" at org.testng.DependencyMap.getMethodsThatBelongTo(DependencyMap.java:45) at org.testng.TestRunner.createDynamicGraph(TestRunner.java:1079) at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:734) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1198) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1123) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1031) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:77) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:110) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:106) ... 9 more {code} and prints: "The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ?" Expected behavior: # Kill this misleading error message, please. I wasted a lot of time looking in the wrong direction because of it. # Surefire should report this as a normal test failure, not a crash. See http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219097 for a related discussion. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira