[SUREFIRE-931] Surefire crashes if test depends on unknown group

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.12.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.13
• Component/s: TestNG support
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Gili
• Created: 07/Dec/12 14:12
• Updated: 13/Dec/12 11:22
• Resolved: 13/Dec/12 03:54

Description

Unzip and run the attached testcase.

Surefire throws the following exception:

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

and prints:

"The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ?"

Expected behavior:

1. Kill this misleading error message, please. I wasted a lot of time looking in the wrong direction because of it.
2. 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.

Issue Links

• relates to: SUREFIRE-910 Surefire 2.12.1 fails with "The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye"