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TestNG 6.13.1 leads to out of memory in surefire fork

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Hi!

During my development, I found out that I was unable to build the citrus-core module after the update of TestNG to 6.13.1, due to forever running test ending up in a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space exception. This occurred during surefire forked test.

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.20.1</version>
  <configuration>
    <systemProperties>
      <property>
        <name>javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory</name>
        <value>org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl</value>
      </property>
      <property>
        <name>user.language</name>
        <value>en</value>
      </property>
    </systemProperties>
    <forkMode>once</forkMode>
    <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
    <skipTests>${skip.unit.tests}</skipTests>
    <excludes>
      <exclude>**/IT*.java</exclude>
      <exclude>**/*IT.java</exclude>
    </excludes>
    <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}</workingDirectory>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

One should try to find the root cause, test whether newer/older TestNG versions have the same problem and report an issue to the TestNG devs as far as it is a TestNG related root cause.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:9 (7 by maintainers)

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svettwercommented, Feb 24, 2018

Hi!

I investigated the issue with the newest TestNG version 6.14.2 and unfortunately the problem still exists.

Here is the detailed stack trace for further investigation.

[ERROR] There was an error in the forked process
[ERROR] Java heap space
[ERROR] org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: There was an error in the forked process
[ERROR] Java heap space
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:673)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:535)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:280)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:245)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1124)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:954)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:832)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:154)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:146)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
[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:309)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:194)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:107)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:955)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:290)
[ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:194)
[ERROR]         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[ERROR]         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
[ERROR]         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
[ERROR]         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
[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)

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svettwercommented, May 23, 2018

Hi @tushar025! Glad to hear that! I’ve also created a TestNG issue. https://github.com/cbeust/testng/issues/1788 The problem is known, fixed and will be part of the next release, which is unfortunately currently not scheduled. Nevertheless, this might be interesting for you as well!

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