ant junit test error: NoClassDefFoundError

Question

I'm new to ant, and stackoverflow as well :-)

I got this problem when running junit test, tried different ways to solve it, it's been 2 days and I got nothing:-(

I mannuly downloaded ant-junit jar, since ivy says it can't do the retrieve for me :-(

my build.xml, just the relevant part:

<property name="FileTest" location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/build/classes/armidale/api/io"/>
<property name="FileTestFiles" location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/src/armidale/api/io"/>
<property name="JunitJarLocation" location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/lib/junit-4.11.jar"/>
<property name="hamcrestLocation" location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/lib/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar"/>
<property name="antjunitLocation" location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/lib/ant-junit-1.9.3.jar"/>

  <junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
  <classpath refid="classpath.test" />


  <batchtest todir="${JUnitTestOutput}">

    <fileset dir="${FileTestFiles}">
      <include name="*Test*.java" />
    </fileset>
    <formatter type="brief" usefile="false"/>
    <formatter type="plain"/>
  </batchtest>


  </junit>

so .java files are in the src folder, and .class files are in the lib folder Pre thanks for anyone who answers!

Update:

 <path id="classpath.test">
 <pathelement location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/lib/ant-     junit-1.9.3.jar"/>

 <pathelement location="${user.home}/software_construction/hg/armidale_students/lib/junit-4.11.jar}"/>


 <pathelement path="${FileTest}" />

 </path>

I don't know why it needs four spaces to generate the code.....anyway, the path code is as above

It would be great to have all build.xml and error stacktrace. Otherwise it is more a sort of guessing. — olyv

Stefan Birkner Stefan Birkner · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-12T16:00:41

Please have a look at the build.xml of this template project: https://github.com/mplacona/java-junit-template-project

ant junit test error: NoClassDefFoundError

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