[maven] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test

I have scoured the internet for almost five days now looking for a fix to this issue, but I cannot seem to find and fix it on my own, mainly because I am so new to both Maven and PlayN so I'm not entirely sure at what I'm looking at exactly. But, it is clearly fizzing up at building the core. Seems it can't download an "artifact filter", and is unable to run Surefire's test. But, I'm just speculating on things I don't quite understand fully, even though I've been trying to research these things like crazy. Any help from more experienced people would be very, very, appreciated. I'm losing my mind on this.

[INFO] Building Synthesis Core 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0:enforce (enforce-maven) @ synthesis-core ---
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ synthesis-core ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 2 resources
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\Users\Josiah\synthesis\core\src\main\resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3:compile (default-compile) @ synthesis-core ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) @ synthesis-core ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\Users\Josiah\synthesis\core\src\test\resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ synthesis-core ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) @ synthesis-core ---
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-common-artifact-filters/1.3/maven-common-artifact-filters-1.3.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Synthesis Metaproject ............................. SUCCESS [1.059s]
[INFO] Synthesis Core .................................... FAILURE [3.538s]
[INFO] Synthesis Java .................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.997s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Oct 31 23:57:38 EDT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/109M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) on project synthesis-core: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test failed: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:jar:2.10 (): Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters:jar:1.3: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters:pom:1.3 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Remotely Closed [id: 0x0847a8f3, /192.168.1.54:65153 :> repo.maven.apache.org/93.184.215.223:80] -> [Help 1]

I then had it to print the whole debug logging, and it elaborated a bit on the Surefire bit, displaying all of the Exceptions invoked:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.
10:test (default-test) on project synthesis-core: Execution default-test of goal
 org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test failed: Plugin org.apa
che.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10 or one of its dependencies could no
t be resolved: Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven
-surefire-plugin:jar:2.10 (): Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.
maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters:jar:1.3: Could not transfer artifact
org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters:pom:1.3 from/to central (h
ttp://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Connection reset -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal o
rg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) on projec
t synthesis-core: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-
surefire-plugin:2.10:test failed: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire
-plugin:2.10 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to collect
 dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:jar:2.10 ()
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor
.java:225)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor
.java:153)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor
.java:145)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProje
ct(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProje
ct(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBu
ild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(Lifecycl
eStarter.java:161)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Laun
cher.java:290)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.jav
a:230)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(La
uncher.java:409)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:
352)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution default-t
est of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test failed: Plu
gin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10 or one of its dependenci
es could not be resolved: Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.pl
ugins:maven-surefire-plugin:jar:2.10 ()
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(Default
BuildPluginManager.java:82)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor
.java:209)
        ... 19 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginResolutionException: Plugin org.apache.
maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10 or one of its dependencies could not be
 resolved: Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-sur
efire-plugin:jar:2.10 ()
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.re
solve(DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.java:211)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.createPlug
inRealm(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:353)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.setupPlugi
nRealm(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:321)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.getPluginRealm(Defa
ultBuildPluginManager.java:175)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(Default
BuildPluginManager.java:78)
        ... 20 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.collection.DependencyCollectionException: Failed
to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:jar:2
.10 ()
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDependencyCollector.collectD
ependencies(DefaultDependencyCollector.java:258)
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultRepositorySystem.collectDepe
ndencies(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:308)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.re
solve(DefaultPluginDependenciesResolver.java:199)
        ... 24 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.resolution.ArtifactDescriptorException: Failed to
 read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filt
ers:jar:1.3
        at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.
loadPom(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:296)
        at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.
readArtifactDescriptor(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:186)
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDependencyCollector.process(
DefaultDependencyCollector.java:412)
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDependencyCollector.process(
DefaultDependencyCollector.java:544)
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultDependencyCollector.collectD
ependencies(DefaultDependencyCollector.java:240)
        ... 26 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Could not
 transfer artifact org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters:pom:1.3
 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Connection reset
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(Def
aultArtifactResolver.java:538)
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArti
facts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:216)
        at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArti
fact(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:193)
        at org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.
loadPom(DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader.java:281)
        ... 30 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.transfer.ArtifactTransferException: Could not tra
nsfer artifact org.apache.maven.shared:maven-common-artifact-filters:pom:1.3 fro
m/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Connection reset
        at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$4.wrap(W
agonRepositoryConnector.java:951)
        at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$4.wrap(W
agonRepositoryConnector.java:941)
        at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$GetTask.
run(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:669)
        at org.sonatype.aether.util.concurrency.RunnableErrorForwarder$1.run(Run
nableErrorForwarder.java:60)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExec
utor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor
.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.TransferFailedException: Connection reset
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.fillInput
Data(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:799)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.getInputStream(StreamWagon.java:11
6)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.getIfNewer(StreamWagon.java:88)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.get(StreamWagon.java:61)
        at org.sonatype.aether.connector.wagon.WagonRepositoryConnector$GetTask.
run(WagonRepositoryConnector.java:601)
        ... 4 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
        at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:168)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.io.AbstractSess
ionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:149)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.io.SocketInputB
uffer.fillBuffer(SocketInputBuffer.java:110)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.io.AbstractSess
ionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:264)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.conn.DefaultRes
ponseParser.parseHead(DefaultResponseParser.java:98)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.io.AbstractMess
ageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:252)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.AbstractHttpCli
entConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:281)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.conn.DefaultCli
entConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:247)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.conn.AbstractCl
ientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:219)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.protocol.HttpRequest
Executor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:298)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.protocol.HttpRequest
Executor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:125)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.DefaultR
equestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:645)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.DefaultR
equestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:464)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.Abstract
HttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.http.httpclient.impl.client.Abstract
HttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:754)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.execute(A
bstractHttpClientWagon.java:674)
        at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.fillInput
Data(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:793)
        ... 8 more

EDIT: Adding in my pom.xml for analysis.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <parent>
    <groupId>com.googlecode.playn</groupId>
    <artifactId>playn-project</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.1</version>
  </parent>

  <groupId>com.hijackedlongboat</groupId>
  <artifactId>synthesis</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>
  <name>Synthesis Metaproject</name>

  <properties>
    <playn.version>1.3.1</playn.version>
  </properties>

  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>java</id>
      <activation><activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault></activation>
      <modules><module>java</module></modules>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>android</id>
      <modules><module>android</module></modules>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>ios</id>
      <modules><module>ios</module></modules>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>html</id>
      <modules><module>html</module></modules>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>flash</id>
      <modules><module>flash</module></modules>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

  <modules>
    <module>core</module>
  </modules>
</project>

EDIT 2: RESOLVED Through using the command "mvn dependency::tree" I was able to find a missing repository that wasn't being displayed on the debug and stack trace. The missing repository was "forplay-legacy", which I then added to the pom.xml as follows:

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>forplay-legacy</id>
      <url>http://forplay.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

This error occurs if some unit test cases are failing.

In my application, certain unit tests were not compatible with Java 8 so they were failing. My error was resolved after changing jdk1.8.0_92 to jdk1.7.0_80.

The build would succeed with mvn clean install -DskipTests but this will skip the unit tests. So just ensure that you run then separately after the build is complete.

Or

Navigate to project root folder and use following commands :

mvn clean install -U or mvn clean install --update-snapshots

Here -U will Forces a check for missing releases and updated snapshots on remote repositories

When I encountered the problem, the changes.xml document was malformed (missing an end tag). The fix was to edit the XML to make it well formed.

So checking that the XML is well formed can be important, especially when the release plugin does not complain about it.

please follow this tutorial: https://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/maven/creating-code-coverage-reports-for-unit-and-integration-tests-with-the-jacoco-maven-plugin/

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.15</version>
<configuration>
    <!-- Sets the VM argument line used when unit tests are run. -->
    <argLine>${surefireArgLine}</argLine>
    <!-- Skips unit tests if the value of skip.unit.tests property is true -->
    <skipTests>${skip.unit.tests}</skipTests>
    <!-- Excludes integration tests when unit tests are run. -->
    <excludes>
        <exclude>**/IT*.java</exclude>
    </excludes>
</configuration>

For me changing the Jenkins version helped.

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.jenkins-ci.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.642.4</version><!-- which version of Jenkins is this plugin built against? -->
  </parent>

I had a similar problem, and the solution for me was quite different from what the other users posted.

The problem with me was related to the project I was working last year, which required a certain proxy on maven settings (located at <path to maven folder>\maven\conf\settings.xml and C:\Users\<my user>\.m2\settings.xml). The proxy was blocking the download of required external packages.

The solution was to put back the original file (settings.xml) on those places. Once things were restored, I was able to download the packages and everything worked.

I had similar issue, I was able to solve it using -U option along with mvn command as

mvn clean install -U

This worked for me, hope it helps.

I had same issue, I resolved from below steps:

1. Right click on project->maven->Update project
2. Here I selected "force update for snapshot/release"
3. After that I compiled again my project and issue got fixed

Update the Maven project:

Steps:

1. Right-click on "project"
2. Go to "Maven" >> "Update"
3. Wait for all the changes to be applied
4. Commit the changes (if code is on repo)
5. Run

I had a similar problem but all answers here didn't help me.

For me the problem was a failing test. If you are doing test driven development than a failing / not implemented test shouldn't break the build. I still want my project to build.

To solve this I added a configuration to surefire so that it ignores a failing test.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.19.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Sometimes you get similar sounding errors but for reasons that're really not related to the tools - in this case Surefire plugin.

For me I was getting a similar error but the reason was i wasn't pointing to the correct DB url !

Among a lot of verbosity (using mvn -X flag) I saw a timeout message.

One trick I did was to install IntelliJ on the build server (for debugging purpose) and fixing problems through it first and then uninstalling it and making sure everything works on build server as well.

I faced the same error, but in my case, the problem was resolved after deleting the /target folder and nbactions.xml file.

I tried following instructions given in most of the comments on this thread, including the chosen answer but the error persisted. I did some research and found this page that gave a solution that helped me out (okay, with some guessing though of my part).

So what I did is that I replaced the version number in the maven surefire plugin as follows: <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0.0-M1</version>

I hope this helps!