Enrico Olivelli created SUREFIRE-1453: -----------------------------------------
Summary: Allow to specify non existant classes as "groups" Key: SUREFIRE-1453 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1453 Project: Maven Surefire Issue Type: Improvement Components: classloading, Junit 4.x support, Maven Surefire Plugin Affects Versions: 2.19.1 Reporter: Enrico Olivelli In a reactor project I would like to run only a subset of JUnit (4.12) tests tagged with @Category But the class which defines the category is not present in the dependency tree of every module. I get this error. I would like to simply skip these modules, maybe in conjunction with the failIfNoTest=false option {code:java} rg.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:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:115) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:75) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to load category: magnews.testgroups.MinimumAcceptance at org.apache.maven.surefire.group.match.SingleGroupMatcher.loadGroupClasses(SingleGroupMatcher.java:134) at org.apache.maven.surefire.common.junit48.FilterFactory.createGroupFilter(FilterFactory.java:92) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreProvider.createJUnit48Filter(JUnitCoreProvider.java:183) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreProvider.invoke(JUnitCoreProvider.java:115) ... 9 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: magnews.testgroups.MinimumAcceptance at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at org.apache.maven.surefire.group.match.SingleGroupMatcher.loadGroupClasses(SingleGroupMatcher.java:130) ... 12 more {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)