[SUREFIRE-1096] ClassCastException: Fork test for TestNG with xmlsuite

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17
• Fix Version/s: 2.18
• Component/s: TestNG support
• Assignee: Andreas Gudian
• Reporter: Michal Bocek
• Created: 04/Sep/14 03:24
• Updated: 26/Oct/14 07:37
• Resolved: 27/Sep/14 18:58

Description

When i setup surefire for forking tests via:

<forkCount>3</forkCount>
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<parallel>false</parallel>

And i'm using TestNG provider with xml suite definition:

<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>suite.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>

I'm getting exception:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.io.File cannot be cast to java.lang.Class
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.runSuitesForkOnceMultiple(ForkStarter.java:201)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:160)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:806)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:701)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:629)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:132)

Issue Links

• duplicates: SUREFIRE-1078 Failure running forked mode with TestNG test suites defined via XML files