After updating Intelij getting Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/testng/TestNG

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After updating intelij i cannot run anymore testng.xml. If i run my tests as a separate Class it works fine and runs. But if i run it as a suite Testng.xml i got error.

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -ea -Didea.launcher.port=7533 "-Didea.launcher.bin.path=/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app/Contents/bin" -Didea.testng.sm_runner -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app/Contents/lib/idea_rt.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app/Contents/plugins/testng/lib/testng-plugin.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/cldrdata.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/jaccess.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/nashorn.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/zipfs.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jce.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jfxswt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/management-agent.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/plugin.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/resources.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/ant-javafx.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/dt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/javafx-mx.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/jconsole.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/packager.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/sa-jdi.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_91.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/tools.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA CE.app/Contents/plugins/testng/lib/jcommander.jar" com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain org.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter -port 63142 -usedefaultlisteners false -socket63143 @w@/private/var/folders/jq/g93n6rmj0xv6ccklv2l2xgs86xx4fm/T/idea_working_dirs_testng.tmp -temp /private/var/folders/jq/g93n6rmj0xv6ccklv2l2xgs86xx4fm/T/idea_testng.tmp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/testng/TestNG
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at org.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:117)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.testng.TestNG
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 18 more

Process finished with exit code 1

My Gradle configuration:

group 'ao-core-android'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'


apply plugin: 'java'

sourceCompatibility = 1.5

tasks.withType(Test) {
    scanForTestClasses = false
    include "**/*Test.class" // whatever Ant pattern matches your test class files
}

test {
    useTestNG {
        suites 'testng.xml'
    }
}


repositories {
    mavenCentral()

}

dependencies {
    //testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'
    compile 'org.testng:testng:6.9.10'
    compile 'io.appium:java-client:4.0.0'
    compile 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:2.53.1'
    compile 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.1.0'
    compile fileTree(dir: 'externalLibs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile files('./lib-test-tools-1.4.0.jar')
}

It highlights the

test {
    useTestNG {
        suites 'testng.xml'
    }
}

in build.gradle.
And gives message :

test' cannot be applied to '(groovy.lang.Closure)' less... (⌘F1) 
This inspection reports assignments with incompatible types

Possible duplicate of [NoClassDefFoundError: org/testng/TestNG](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39643424/noclassdeffounderror-org-testng-testng) — Sylvester Loreto, Feb 23 '17 at 14:22

Sylvester Loreto · Answer 1 · 2017-02-23T17:07:28.420

I had the same issue 'Anton Anton' reported when I ran a particular unit test. However, this didn't happen when I ran the entire suite with mvn clean test.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoclassDefFoundError: org/test/TestNG

I came across this blog post in the IntelliJ Community which did work for me.

"I got it to work by selecting "In whole project" (I had "In single module" selected) under the Configuration tab in the TestNG "Run/Debug Configurations."

Credits to Serge Baranov and Leonardo Hernandez.

After updating Intelij getting Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/testng/TestNG

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