Failed to execute goal com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven:gauge-maven-plugin:1.4.3:execute (default-cli) on project gurutest-gauge: Gauge Specs execution failed. null: GaugeExecutionFailedException -> [Help 1]

[tyagiprince2010]

Gauge version:

Commit Hash: 28617ea
Plugins
html-report (4.0.10)
java (0.7.7)
json-report (0.3.3)
screenshot (0.0.1)

I ran this command
COUNTRY=SG ENVIRONMENT=staging RESPONSIVE_SCREEN_DEVICE=Desktop gauge_custom_build_path=./target/classes gauge_additional_libs=./target/dependency-jars runDocker=yes mvn -X -e gauge:execute -DspecsDir=specs/ -DinParallel=true -Dnodes=10 -Dtags="SERVICE=agent-contentvalidator&REGION=SG&TYPE=api&TEST=smoke,\!in-progress,\!EXCLUDE=staging" -Dflags=--env=staging

Successfully generated html-report to => /app/reports/html-report/2020-04-30 16.37.35/index.html
Successfully generated json-report to => /app/reports/json-report/2020-04-30 16.37.35
Specifications:	1 executed	1 passed	0 failed	0 skipped
Scenarios:	1 executed	1 passed	0 failed	0 skipped
Total time taken: 16.463s
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  30.840 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-04-30T16:37:35Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven:gauge-maven-plugin:1.4.3:execute (default-cli) on project gurutest-gauge: Gauge Specs execution failed. null: GaugeExecutionFailedException -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven:gauge-maven-plugin:1.4.3:execute (default-cli) on project gurutest-gauge: Gauge Specs execution failed. null
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:215)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:156)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:148)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build (SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute (LifecycleStarter.java:128)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:305)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:192)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute (DefaultMaven.java:105)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute (MavenCli.java:956)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain (MavenCli.java:288)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main (MavenCli.java:192)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:566)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java:289)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch (Launcher.java:229)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:415)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException: Gauge Specs execution failed. null
    at com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven.GaugeExecutionMojo.execute (GaugeExecutionMojo.java:125)
    at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo (DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:137)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:210)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:156)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:148)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build (SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute (LifecycleStarter.java:128)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:305)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:192)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute (DefaultMaven.java:105)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute (MavenCli.java:956)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain (MavenCli.java:288)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main (MavenCli.java:192)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:566)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java:289)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch (Launcher.java:229)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:415)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven.exception.GaugeExecutionFailedException
    at com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven.GaugeCommand.execute (GaugeCommand.java:34)
    at com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven.GaugeExecutionMojo.execute (GaugeExecutionMojo.java:123)
    at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo (DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:137)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:210)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:156)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute (MojoExecutor.java:148)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject (LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build (SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute (LifecycleStarter.java:128)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:305)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:192)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute (DefaultMaven.java:105)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute (MavenCli.java:956)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain (MavenCli.java:288)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main (MavenCli.java:192)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:566)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java:289)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch (Launcher.java:229)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:415)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:356)
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

The reports got generated but then i got this error.

[tyagiprince2010]

This is pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.propertyguru</groupId>
    <artifactId>gurutest-gauge</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.thoughtworks.gauge</groupId>
            <artifactId>gauge-java</artifactId>
            <version>0.7.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
            <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
            <version>1.24</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>3.141.59</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
            <artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
            <version>9.4.18.v20190429</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
            <version>20180813</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
            <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.0-b01</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
            <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
            <version>3.7.1</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
            <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
            <version>6.14.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.opencsv</groupId>
            <artifactId>opencsv</artifactId>
            <version>4.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jdom</groupId>
            <artifactId>jdom2</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <version>8.0.16</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.github.fge</groupId>
            <artifactId>json-schema-validator</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.github.fge</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-coreutils</artifactId>
            <version>1.8</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
            <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
            <artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
            <artifactId>rest-assured-all</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
            <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
            <artifactId>json-schema-validator</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
            <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
            <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
            <version>1.3</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.25</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.github.dzieciou.testing</groupId>
            <artifactId>curl-logger</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.5</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.13</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
            <version>1.11.3</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1.2</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy-dependencies</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <includeScope>runtime</includeScope>
                            <outputDirectory>./target/dependency-jars/</outputDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>gauge-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.3</version>
                <executions>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.8.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>```

[sriv]

Hi @tyagiprince2010 -

Can you please check these:

• Is this happening only in your project or is it happening in other projects (ex. gauge init java_maven_selenium) ?

• Does this work if you use an older version of gauge-maven-plugin (ex. 1.4.2)?

[tyagiprince2010]

Hi @sriv,

• I tried with the older version of gauge-maven-plugin which works.

• I also tried running this command gauge init java_maven_selenium and it works without any errors.
  But when I ran mvn clean test, it gave me this error:

[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /var/jenkins_home/workspace/devtoolsqa-agent-contentvalidator/gauge/src/test/java/package/StepImplementation.java:[1,8] <identifier> expected
[INFO] 1 error
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  01:22 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-05-04T04:41:38Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.7.0:testCompile (default-testCompile) on project gauge: Compilation failure
[ERROR] /var/jenkins_home/workspace/devtoolsqa-agent-contentvalidator/gauge/src/test/java/package/StepImplementation.java:[1,8] <identifier> expected
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Its a different error. maybe its because it was expecting an identifier which I didnt pass somehow.

[sriv]

ok, so it seems that we'll need a project to replicate this. Do you have a sample project that we can use to replicate and verify this fix?

From the logs it seems that maven plugin is unable to execute gauge and the error isn't getting surfaced properly.

[tyagiprince2010]

@sriv can it be because of this?

[ParseError] /app/specs/FinTech/smoke/EnquiryFormLayoutOnLoanResultsFloatingRate.spec:38 Duplicate scenario definition 'Let's Talk Private Prope│···························································
rty Eqnuiry form Layout - Floating Section' found in the same specification => 'Let's Talk Private Property Eqnuiry form Layout - Floating Secti│···························································
on'                                                                                                                                             │···························································
[ParseError] /app/specs/SEO/regression/canonicalValidations/MYDynamicSearchCanonicalValidation.spec:67 Dynamic parameter <Country> could not be │···························································
resolved => 'Given I load the document for <Route> of <Country>'                                                                                ```

[sriv]

I think not. ParseError would cause that spec alone to be skipped. Rest should run as expected. In anycase there should not be an exception as reported by you.

[tyagiprince2010]

@sriv I tried by fixing the parsing errors and it works now.
Is there a way to skip those parsing errors, or skip those specs with parsing errors?

[sriv]

That's good to know. The only way to skip specs is if you filter it out using tags.

But in any case, I don't think gauge-maven-plugin should throw that error. Hence, I am keen to fix this. But I am unable to replicate it, unfortunately.

[tdauth]

Hello, I am running into the same problem when running the command:

mvn gauge:execute -DspecsDir=specs/example.spec

I setup a Gauge project on an existing Java project.
This is my Gauge plugin in the pom.xml:

<plugin>
				<groupId>com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven</groupId>
				<artifactId>gauge-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>1.4.3</version>
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<id>validate</id>
						<phase>test-compile</phase>
						<goals>
							<goal>validate</goal>
						</goals>
					</execution>
					<execution>
						<phase>test</phase>
						<configuration>
							<specsDir>specs</specsDir>
						</configuration>
						<goals>
							<goal>execute</goal>
						</goals>
					</execution>
				</executions>
			</plugin>

And my dependency in the pom.xml:

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.thoughtworks.gauge</groupId>
   <artifactId>gauge-java</artifactId>
   <version>0.7.10</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

This is my error output:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.thoughtworks.gauge.maven:gauge-maven-plugin:1.4.3:execute (default-cli) on project mobileproducts-test-client: Gauge Specs execution failed. null: GaugeExecutionFailedException -> [Help 1]
        at com.thoughtworks.gauge.execution.parameters.parsers.base.ParameterParsingChain.<init>(ParameterParsingChain.java:33)
        at com.thoughtworks.gauge.connection.MessageProcessorFactory.initializeExecutionMessageProcessors(MessageProcessorFactory.java:112)
[ERROR] 
        at com.thoughtworks.gauge.connection.MessageProcessorFactory.getProcessor(MessageProcessorFactory.java:87)
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
        at com.thoughtworks.gauge.RunnerServiceHandler.lambda$validateStep$17(RunnerServiceHandler.java:332)
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
[ERROR] 
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jboss.aop.ClassContainer
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

A different more meaningful error output would cerainly help me. Btw, I get lots of warnings with ReflectionsExceptions like this:

[pool-2-thread-1] WARN org.reflections.Reflections - could not get type for name javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub from any class loader
org.reflections.ReflectionsException: could not get type for name javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub
        at org.reflections.ReflectionUtils.forName(ReflectionUtils.java:390)