Class Not Found Exception when running JUnit test

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quarks picture quarks · Jul 8, 2012 · Viewed 256.1k times · Source

I am getting this error when running JUnit test in Eclipse:

Class not found com.myproject.server.MyTest
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.myproject.server.MyTest
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.loadClass(RemoteTestRunner.java:693)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.loadClasses(RemoteTestRunner.java:429)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:452)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)

I've tried adding JUnit library in the classpath although I'm using maven, and the JUnit library is in the POM dependency.

I already have tried cleaning the project and created a new JUnit test case using the JUnit plugin for Eclipse, still getting the same error.

Answer

Newtrino picture Newtrino · Jul 21, 2013

This appears to occur because only the source code is compiling when you use mvn clean compile (I'm using maven 3.1.0 so I'm not sure if it always behaved like this).

If you run mvn test, the test code will compile as well, but then it runs the tests (which may not be immediately desirable if you're trying to run them through Eclipse.) The way around this is to add test-compile to your Maven command sequence whenever you do a mvn clean. For example, you would run mvn clean compile test-compile.

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