I am facing the following issue while running my automation. This is what I am getting on the console.
io.cucumber.core.exception.CucumberException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/cucumber/messages/internal/com/google/protobuf/GeneratedMessageV3
at io.cucumber.core.plugin.PluginFactory.newInstance(PluginFactory.java:120)
at io.cucumber.core.plugin.PluginFactory.instantiate(PluginFactory.java:99)
at io.cucumber.core.plugin.PluginFactory.create(PluginFactory.java:63)
at io.cucumber.core.plugin.Plugins.createPlugins(Plugins.java:32)
at io.cucumber.core.plugin.Plugins.<init>(Plugins.java:25)
at io.cucumber.testng.TestNGCucumberRunner.<init>(TestNGCucumberRunner.java:108)
at io.cucumber.testng.AbstractTestNGCucumberTests.setUpClass(AbstractTestNGCucumberTests.java:27)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:133)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethodConsideringTimeout(MethodInvocationHelper.java:62)
at org.testng.internal.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(ConfigInvoker.java:385)
at org.testng.internal.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurations(ConfigInvoker.java:321)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeBeforeClassMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:176)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:122)
at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1541)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:794)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:596)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:377)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:371)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:332)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:276)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:53)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:96)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1212)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1134)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1063)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1031)
at com.intellij.rt.testng.IDEARemoteTestNG.run(IDEARemoteTestNG.java:66)
at com.intellij.rt.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:109)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/cucumber/messages/internal/com/google/protobuf/GeneratedMessageV3 at com.aventstack.extentreports.cucumber.adapter.ExtentCucumberAdapter.(ExtentCucumberAdapter.java:91) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490) at io.cucumber.core.plugin.PluginFactory.newInstance(PluginFactory.java:116) ... 31 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: io.cucumber.messages.internal.com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessageV3 at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522) ... 37 more