Spring Boot fails to run maven-surefire-plugin ClassNotFoundException org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter

Question

Running maven (3.5.2) build of a Spring Boot 2.0.2.RELEASE applicaton (generated by web initialiser with web dependencies) fails executing the maven

Answer 1

Workaround for the issue was to override Spring Boot's maven-surefire-plugin definition and set useSystemClassLoader to false. Read Surefire docs for more details

    
        ...
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-surefire-plugin
            
                false