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Incompatible class change error

See original GitHub issue

Summary

Tried to run a test after upgrading from Cucumber 2.1.0 to 3.0.2

Expected Behavior

Test runs successfully

Current Behavior

The following exception is thrown:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Found interface cucumber.api.TestCase, but class was expected
	at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.handleTestCaseStarted(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:80)
	at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.access$000(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:17)
	at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter$1.receive(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:32)
	at org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter$1.receive(CucumberJvm2SMFormatter.java:30)
	at cucumber.runner.EventBus.send(EventBus.java:28)
	at cucumber.runner.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:37)
	at cucumber.runner.Runner.runPickle(Runner.java:44)
	at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.runFeature(Runtime.java:120)
	at cucumber.runtime.Runtime.run(Runtime.java:106)
	at cucumber.api.cli.Main.run(Main.java:35)
	at cucumber.api.cli.Main.main(Main.java:18)

Possible causes

Here are some of the versions of the dependencies for the project. Maybe related?

        <spring.version>4.3.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
        <cucumber.version>3.0.2</cucumber.version>
        <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
        <selenium.version>3.7.1</selenium.version>

Environment

Mac OS X IntelliJIDEA

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

11reactions

mpkorstanjecommented, Jun 11, 2018

This is caused by IDEA’s CucumberJvm2SMFormatter. It being the formatter for Cucumber2, runs into a breaking change in Cucumber 3.

If you remove --plugin org.jetbrains.plugins.cucumber.java.run.CucumberJvm2SMFormatter from program arguments in the run configuration it will work again. You’ll have to do this until InteliJ fixes their plugin.

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mlvandijkcommented, Feb 8, 2019

@RajaRaviTeja But to give a hint: Note that you are using both Junit and TestNG dependencies, and the testng dependency is a different version.

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