mockito test gives no such method error when run as junit test but when jars are added manually in run confugurations, it runs well

Question

I\'ve been facing a peculiar problem. Basically, when I run my Mockito/PowerMockito test normally i.e. \'Run as Junit Test\', it gives me the following error :

Answer 1

Your IDE needs to be synchronized with Maven, which is what you're doing manually by adding the dependencies.

Unfortunately Eclipse doesn't (or didn't) provide this behavior out-of-the-box (unlike IntelliJ which synchronizes seamlessly).

The solution used to be done with the Maven Eclipse Plugin but looking at the docs it seems the latest way to do this is with Eclipse Maven Integration plugin for the IDE.