Building maven spring boot project throws error

Question

I am new to spring boot. I am trying to migrate project from old spring boot to the latest version.

I changed the version of spring boot in project. But when i build the project it fails in tests throwing computational failure with error below

package org.springframework.test.annotation does not exist

I have this dependency in my project

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

Not sure what i could be missing?

I would guess that Maven corrupted the `spring-test` jar (a dependency on `spring-boot-test`) when it downloaded it. Try clearing out your Maven cache and building your application again. — Andy Wilkinson, Jun 21 '18 at 18:33
after I added spring-boot-starter-test instead of spring-boot-test it worked. what is the difference between the both and when to use which? — Neha, Jun 21 '18 at 18:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '18 at 05:36

Change spring-boot-test TO spring-boot-starter-test like below :

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

to

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Refer http://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-starters for more info about starters.

Building maven spring boot project throws error

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