Spring JUnit: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL

junit4, spring

Solution

It was the issue with jmock-junit4. It was removed by putting following (excluding the junit when importing jmock-junit) --

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jmock</groupId>
    <artifactId>jmock-junit4</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.1</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit-dep</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

Problem

I am pretty much new to maven. When I execute `mvn clean install` I get following error in all the test classes during execution. After going through some of the posts on SO and searching through Google, all mentioned JUnit version problem. I cross-checked all my pom files and they have junit version 4.8.2. But, still I keep on getting this error. ``` <testcase time="0.002" classname="com.service.ServiceImpl" name="initializationError0"> <error message="NULL" type="java.lang.NoSuchFieldError">java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.&lt;init&gt;(ParentRunner.java:48) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.&lt;init&gt;(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:58) at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.&lt;init&gt;(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:104) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.buildRunner(ClassRequest.java:33) at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:28) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4TestSet.execute(JUnit4TestSet.java:51) at org.apache.maven.surefire.suite.AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.executeTestSet(AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.java:120) at org.apache.maven.surefire.suite.AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.execute(AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.java:103) at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:169) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:350) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:1021) </error> </testcase> ``` I ran `mvn dependency:tree` and searched for all junit instances. All of them showed 4.8.2.

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