Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.thucydides.core.model.TestStep after updating Serenity version >= 4

[kamal-kaur04]

What happened?

Getting below exception when trying to bump Serenity version v4+ :

net.serenitybdd.core.exceptions.StepInitialisationException: Failed to create step library for SerenityReporter:Could not create type
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.getNewCachedStepLibraryFor(StepFactory.java:145)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.getSharedStepLibraryFor(StepFactory.java:120)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.IndividualInstancesByDefaultStepCreationStrategy.initiateStepsFor(IndividualInstancesByDefaultStepCreationStrategy.java:15)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepAnnotations.instantiateAnyUnitiaializedSteps(StepAnnotations.java:89)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepAnnotations.instanciateScenarioStepFields(StepAnnotations.java:70)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepAnnotations.injectScenarioStepsInto(StepAnnotations.java:52)
        at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.injectScenarioStepsInto(Serenity.java:147)
        at net.serenitybdd.core.Serenity.initializeWithNoStepListener(Serenity.java:115)
        at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.newInstance(SerenityObjectFactory.java:74)
        at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.cacheNewInstance(SerenityObjectFactory.java:57)
        at cucumber.runtime.SerenityObjectFactory.getInstance(SerenityObjectFactory.java:47)
        at io.cucumber.java8.Java8Backend.buildWorld(Java8Backend.java:65)
        at io.cucumber.core.runner.Runner.buildBackendWorlds(Runner.java:136)
        at io.cucumber.core.runner.Runner.runPickle(Runner.java:70)
        at io.cucumber.junit.platform.engine.CucumberEngineExecutionContext.lambda$runTestCase$4(CucumberEngineExecutionContext.java:112)
        at io.cucumber.core.runtime.CucumberExecutionContext.lambda$runTestCase$5(CucumberExecutionContext.java:137)
        at io.cucumber.core.runtime.RethrowingThrowableCollector.executeAndThrow(RethrowingThrowableCollector.java:23)
        at io.cucumber.core.runtime.CucumberExecutionContext.runTestCase(CucumberExecutionContext.java:137)
        at io.cucumber.junit.platform.engine.CucumberEngineExecutionContext.runTestCase(CucumberEngineExecutionContext.java:109)
        at io.cucumber.junit.platform.engine.NodeDescriptor$PickleDescriptor.execute(NodeDescriptor.java:168)
        at io.cucumber.junit.platform.engine.NodeDescriptor$PickleDescriptor.execute(NodeDescriptor.java:90)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.RecursiveAction.exec(RecursiveAction.java:194)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:373)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.topLevelExec(ForkJoinPool.java:1182)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.scan(ForkJoinPool.java:1655)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1622)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:165)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not create type
        at net.bytebuddy.TypeCache.findOrInsert(TypeCache.java:170)
        at net.bytebuddy.TypeCache$WithInlineExpunction.findOrInsert(TypeCache.java:399)
        at net.bytebuddy.TypeCache.findOrInsert(TypeCache.java:190)
        at net.bytebuddy.TypeCache$WithInlineExpunction.findOrInsert(TypeCache.java:410)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.load(StepFactory.java:269)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.createProxyStepLibrary(StepFactory.java:238)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.instantiateNewStepLibraryFor(StepFactory.java:188)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.instantiateNewStepLibraryFor(StepFactory.java:179)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.getNewCachedStepLibraryFor(StepFactory.java:139)
        ... 26 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/thucydides/core/model/TestStep
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:3402)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2504)
        at net.bytebuddy.description.method.MethodList$ForLoadedMethods.<init>(MethodList.java:152)
        at net.bytebuddy.description.type.TypeDescription$ForLoadedType.getDeclaredMethods(TypeDescription.java:8940)
        at net.bytebuddy.description.type.TypeDescription$Generic$OfNonGenericType.getDeclaredMethods(TypeDescription.java:3711)
        at net.bytebuddy.description.type.TypeDescription$Generic$LazyProjection.getDeclaredMethods(TypeDescription.java:6210)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.subclass.ConstructorStrategy$Default$5.doExtractConstructors(ConstructorStrategy.java:175)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.subclass.ConstructorStrategy$Default.extractConstructors(ConstructorStrategy.java:196)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.subclass.SubclassDynamicTypeBuilder.applyConstructorStrategy(SubclassDynamicTypeBuilder.java:242)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.subclass.SubclassDynamicTypeBuilder.toTypeWriter(SubclassDynamicTypeBuilder.java:212)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.subclass.SubclassDynamicTypeBuilder.toTypeWriter(SubclassDynamicTypeBuilder.java:203)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.DynamicType$Builder$AbstractBase$UsingTypeWriter.make(DynamicType.java:4055)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.DynamicType$Builder$AbstractBase.make(DynamicType.java:3739)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.DynamicType$Builder$AbstractBase$Delegator.make(DynamicType.java:3991)
        at net.thucydides.core.steps.StepFactory.lambda$load$2(StepFactory.java:272)
        at net.bytebuddy.TypeCache.findOrInsert(TypeCache.java:168)
        ... 34 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.thucydides.core.model.TestStep
        at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520)
        ... 51 more

What did you expect to happen?

Tests should run on BrowserStack with proper session name and status.

Serenity BDD version

LTS (4.0.19)

JDK version

17

Execution environment

• Mac M2
• Running on BrowserStack
• No

How to reproduce the bug.

https://github.com/kamal-kaur04/serenity-tests

How can we make it happen?

Hire the Serenity BDD team

[kamal-kaur04]

@wakaleo There is one more issue, when running with serenity v3.9.8 the session status is not getting marked using serenity-browserstack-plugin, is this something known with jUnit5 runner?

[wakaleo]

Here is what I could find:

• There are several dependency conflicts:
  - webdriver-overload uses an older version of Selenium (you need to update the library)
  - Use the latest version of Selenium (currently 4.0.21)
  - Use the latest lombok version (currently 1.18.30)
• You are also using a custom driver, which is not recommended as it is harder to maintain and means you cannot use the standard Selenium browserstack plugin or the W3C configurations in the serenity.conf file.

I would probably recommend removing webdriver-overload and the custom driver, and rewriting the tests using more idiomatic Serenity features (see https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-core/tree/main/serenity-smoketests or https://github.com/serenity-dojo/swaglabs-serenity-cucumber.git for example).

[kamal-kaur04]

@wakaleo Thanks pointing this out, it worked after bumping webdriver-overload version to latest. Now, have noticed an issue that the session status on BrowserStack is not getting marked. setSessionName is working fine.

Could you please let us know if what causes this?

[wakaleo]

To get the browserstack status updates when running with Cucumber 7 you need to run with a recent version (e.g. 4.0.29) and include the serenity-browserstack plugin in the dependencies.

[kamal-kaur04]

@wakaleo Acknowledged. Have tried the suggestion. Still, I'm not getting status updates on the above sample. There are no such errors, plugin seems to be working since it's marking the session name on BrowserStack correctly.

[wakaleo]

Could you try with this repo? https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-todomvc-demo/tree/browserstack

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