gradle execution failed for task :compileTestJava

Question

I am trying to build my project but I get this error

Execution failed for task ':compileTestJava'
>Copilation failed; see the compiler error output for details

This is my build file:

apply plugin: "application"
apply plugin: "java"

mainClassName = "<package>.Main"

repositories
    {
    jcenter
        {
        url "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/"
        }
    }

dependencies
    {
    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox
    implementation group: 'org.apache.pdfbox', name: 'pdfbox', version: '2.0.1'
    }

test
    {
    useJUnitPlatform()
    testLogging
        {
        events "passed", "skipped", "failed"
        }
    }

I updated my build file. Now the project builds by using gradle run, but it doesn't using gradle check. Am I missing some dependencies to be able to use my test classes?

Answer 1

You need Gradle 4.6 or later for JUnit 5 support.

Unless you have a specific reason for using such an old version, you will probably want to use the latest (which at this time is 6.4).