java.net.SocketException: Connection reset when launching Mutation Testing

[marinabilles]

I use Pitclipse 0.30.2.201307081826, which is the latest version supplied to me from the PITclipse repository at http://eclipse.pitest.org/release/ (The repository is activated and when I tell Eclipse to search for updates, I receive none.) My Eclipse version is Kepler.

Sometimes when I start PIT Mutation Testing on a project, I get the following error: It happened several times for me today but I wasn't able to reproduce the exact circumstances. Restarting Eclipse fixed the problem.

Starting on port: 51079
Connected
Exception in thread "main" org.pitest.pitclipse.pitrunner.server.PitServer$PitServerException: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
    at org.pitest.pitclipse.pitrunner.server.PitServer.readOptions(PitServer.java:56)
    at org.pitest.pitclipse.pitrunner.PitRunner.main(PitRunner.java:52)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readShort(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.pitest.pitclipse.pitrunner.server.PitServer.readOptions(PitServer.java:52)
    ... 1 more
Closing server
Closed

[philglover]

Is this an immediate failure or does it hang for a little while before crashing?

[marinabilles]

It happens immediately after launching.
(The last time this problem occured, it was after I had renamed the project I was working on, not sure whether that was related.)

Once the SocketException has occured once. starting PIT Mutation Test again does nothing. Only restarting Eclipse helps.

[marinabilles]

I should add, this happens to me on Windows 7 SP 1, Java 1.7.0_25 JDK.