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

Adding this to the maven-surefire-plugin I resolved the problem:

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