There was an error in the forked process

Hello, I’ve tried to migrate my project from jdk 1.6 to jdk 1.7, but faced with following issue:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.16:test (default-test) on project test: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.16:test failed: There was an error in the forked process
[ERROR] java.lang.NullPointerException
[ERROR] at java.lang.String.length(String.java:623)
[ERROR] at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:414)
[ERROR] at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:237)
[ERROR] at org.testng.reporters.TestHTMLReporter.generateTable(TestHTMLReporter.java:114)
[ERROR] at org.testng.reporters.TestHTMLReporter.generateLog(TestHTMLReporter.java:305)
[ERROR] at org.testng.reporters.TestHTMLReporter.onFinish(TestHTMLReporter.java:40)
[ERROR] at org.testng.TestRunner.fireEvent(TestRunner.java:1241)
[ERROR] at org.testng.TestRunner.afterRun(TestRunner.java:1032)
[ERROR] at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:621)
[ERROR] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
[ERROR] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
[ERROR] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
[ERROR] at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
[ERROR] at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
[ERROR] at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
[ERROR] at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1224)
[ERROR] at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1149)
[ERROR] at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:91)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.executeMulti(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:204)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.execute(TestNGDirectoryTestSuite.java:107)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:113)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:200)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:153)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:103)
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]

I’m not sure is this a testng problem. Please close issue, if not. P.S. jdk: 1.7.0_25 maven: 3.0.5 maven-surfire-plugin: 2.16

[praveentata]

Hi,

I am updating my JDK from 1.7 to 1.8. There are no compilation errors. - mvn clean compile test-compile works fine. Below are the versions of dependencies which I am using: TestNG - 6.14.3 (We were on 6.9.10) Maven Surefire Plugin - 2.21.0 Maven Compiler Plugin - 3.0

We have a QA framework which is introduced as dependency in pom.xml in all our projects. We have testng depdendency in QA framework pom.xml as well :

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
	<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
	<version>6.14.3</version>
	<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

When I do mvn install, I get the following error:

[ERROR] org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: There was an error in the forked process
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] The test(s) <[]> cannot be found.
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:658)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:533)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:278)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:244)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1149)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:978)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:854)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:207)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:307)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:193)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:106)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:863)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
[ERROR] at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:199)
[ERROR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[ERROR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
[ERROR] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
[ERROR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
[ERROR] at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
[ERROR] at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
[ERROR] at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
[ERROR] at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)

When I try to run my test project via testng.xml or just a single test class, I get the following error:

[RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 6.14.3
org.testng.TestNGException: 
The test(s) <[${test}]> cannot be found.
	at org.testng.TestNG.parseSuite(TestNG.java:312)
	at org.testng.TestNG.initializeSuitesAndJarFile(TestNG.java:348)
	at org.testng.TestNG.initializeEverything(TestNG.java:995)
	at org.testng.remote.support.RemoteTestNG6_12.initialize(RemoteTestNG6_12.java:22)
	at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:97)
	at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
	at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)

Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[Mastro812]

Thank you, Sir, the error is solved…