Jenkin build fails after maven dependencies upgrade

Question

Recently, I was working on upgrading the dependencies of one of my team's projects. After changes, project built successfully locally on my laptop. But the same code change threw compilation error on Jenkins.

The errors I am encountering is related to class file for xxx.xxx.xxx. not found in powermockito package. Attaching some relevant pieces of code for reference.

Pervious pom version used:

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<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

    <!--dropwizard versions-->
    <dropwizard.version>1.3.5</dropwizard.version>
    <dropwizard.swagger.version>1.0.0-2-auth-SNAPSHOT</dropwizard.swagger.version>
    <dropwizard.bundle.version>1.3.5-1</dropwizard.bundle.version>
    <dropwizard.requestinfo>1.3.5-3</dropwizard.requestinfo>
    <dropwizard.rosey.data.provider.version>1.3.5-3</dropwizard.rosey.data.provider.version>
    <dropwizard.service.discovery>1.3.5-0</dropwizard.service.discovery>
    <dropwizard.rmq.actor.version>1.2.2-1</dropwizard.rmq.actor.version>
    <dropwizard.riemann.version>1.3.5-4</dropwizard.riemann.version>

    <!--hystrix versions-->
    <hystrix.dropwizard.version>0.4</hystrix.dropwizard.version>
    <hystrix.configurator.version>0.0.6</hystrix.configurator.version>
    <hystrix.version>1.5.3</hystrix.version>
    <hystrix.wrapper.version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</hystrix.wrapper.version>

    <!--internal clients-->
    <user-service-model.version>1.7.91</user-service-model.version>
    <kratos.version>0.8.2-SNAPSHOT</kratos.version>
    <rosey.dropwizard.config>1.14</rosey.dropwizard.config>

    <!--others-->
    <mysql.driver.version>5.1.38</mysql.driver.version>
    <okhttp3.version>3.4.1</okhttp3.version>
    <lombok.version>1.18.8</lombok.version>
    <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
    <powemock.version>1.7.3</powemock.version>
    <h2.version>1.4.191</h2.version>
    <square.okhttp.version>3.4.1</square.okhttp.version>
    <rmq.version>4.1.0</rmq.version>
    <zookeeper.version>3.4.13</zookeeper.version>
    <curator.version>4.0.1</curator.version>
</properties>

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Current pom version used:

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<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

    <!--dropwizard versions-->
    <dropwizard.version>1.3.12</dropwizard.version>
    <dropwizard.swagger.version>1.3.7-1</dropwizard.swagger.version>
    <dropwizard.bundle.version>1.3.5-1</dropwizard.bundle.version>
    <dropwizard.requestinfo>1.3.5-8</dropwizard.requestinfo>
    <dropwizard.rosey.data.provider.version>1.3.5-6</dropwizard.rosey.data.provider.version>
    <dropwizard.service.discovery>1.3.12-3</dropwizard.service.discovery>
    <dropwizard.rmq.actor.version>1.3.12-1</dropwizard.rmq.actor.version>
    <dropwizard.db.sharding.bundle.version>1.3.12-3</dropwizard.db.sharding.bundle.version>
    <dropwizard.riemann.version>1.3.12-1</dropwizard.riemann.version>

    <!--hystrix versions-->
    <hystrix.dropwizard.version>0.4</hystrix.dropwizard.version>
    <hystrix.configurator.version>0.0.6</hystrix.configurator.version>
    <hystrix.version>1.5.3</hystrix.version>

    <!--internal clients-->
    <user-service-model.version>1.7.96-STAGE-SNAPSHOT</user-service-model.version>
    <kratos.version>0.9.6</kratos.version>
    <rosey.dropwizard.config>1.15</rosey.dropwizard.config>

    <!-- storage -->
    <aerospike.version>3.3.0</aerospike.version>
    <mock.aerospike.version>0.0.4</mock.aerospike.version>

    <!--others-->
    <okhttp3.version>3.4.1</okhttp3.version>
    <lombok.version>1.18.8</lombok.version>
    <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
    <powemock.version>1.7.3</powemock.version>
    <guava.version>28.0-jre</guava.version>
    <h2.version>1.4.199</h2.version>
    <rmq.version>5.7.2</rmq.version>
    <zookeeper.version>3.4.13</zookeeper.version>
    <curator.version>4.2.0</curator.version>
    <sentinel.model.version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</sentinel.model.version>
</properties>

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Shortend error logs:

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[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/MerchantResourceTest.java:[19,1] cannot access org.powermock.api.support.membermodification.MemberModifier
  class file for org.powermock.api.support.membermodification.MemberModifier not found
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/VPAResourceTest.java:[29,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/VPAResourceTest.java:[30,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/services/PrimerServiceTest.java:[28,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/services/PrimerServiceTest.java:[29,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/AddressResourceTest.java:[22,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/AddressResourceTest.java:[23,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/services/WalletServiceTest.java:[27,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/services/WalletServiceTest.java:[28,1] static import only from classes and interfaces
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/MerchantResourceTest.java:[24,25] cannot access org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.AbstractCommonPowerMockRunner
  class file for org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.AbstractCommonPowerMockRunner not found
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/VPAResourceTest.java:[37,25] incompatible types: java.lang.Class<org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner> cannot be converted to java.lang.Class<? extends org.junit.runner.Runner>
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/BaseResourceTest.java:[26,19] package org.mockito does not exist
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/BaseResourceTest.java:[30,26] package org.mockito does not exist
[ERROR] /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/src/test/java/com/xxxxxxx/userservice/resources/BaseResourceTest.java:[30,1] static import only from classes and interfaces

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Experiment I did: When I removed the test scope from the powermockito dependency, everything worked like a charm.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
        <artifactId>powermock-api-mockito</artifactId>
        <version>${powemock.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>          <- This line
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
        <artifactId>powermock-module-junit4</artifactId>
        <version>${powemock.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>          <- This line
    </dependency>

Pasting mockito's maven dependency tree below

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[INFO] +- org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  +- org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito-common:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  |  \- org.powermock:powermock-api-support:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  \- org.mockito:mockito-core:jar:1.10.19:test
[INFO] +- org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  +- org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4-common:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  |  +- org.powermock:powermock-reflect:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  |  \- org.powermock:powermock-core:jar:1.7.3:test
[INFO] |  \- org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.3:test

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Maven command which is executing on Jenkins, below sample is taken from console log:

Executing Maven:  -B -f /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/UserService_Develop/workspace/pom.xml -U clean package cobertura:cobertura docker:build docker:push -Pdocker -Dproject.version=1.8.23-SNAPSHOT -Dbuild.number=1501 -Dbuild.revision=9d8d00591c23b061b07e1a08c00ff024db8ba318 -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true -DskipTests -DargLine=-Xmx512m

Ideally, it should not have happened. I googled for few days found this blog Why your tests may pass locally but fail in Jenkins. Unfortunately, nothing seems to work for me. Need some assitance here. Thanks!

Answer 1

Your experiment shows that the dependency tree is not the problem. What is the problem is the scope of the dependency. The test scope only adds the dependency to the classpath for test compilation and test execution.

What may go wrong here is that your test classes are actually compiled in the compile phase, not the test-compile phase. A test you can do to check this is to leave the scope as test and try to build the project with mvn compile, which should NOT build the test sources if everything is configured correctly.

Other than that, is it hard to guess what exactly your are doing and where it could go wrong without seeing the complete pom.xml, but I hope this gives you a starting point.