Maven 3 and JUnit 4 compilation problem: package org.junit does not exist

Question

I am trying to build a simple Java project with Maven. In my pom-file I declare JUnit 4.8.2 as the only dependency. Still Maven insists on using JUnit version 3.8.1. How do

Answer 1

I had a quite similar problem in a "test-utils" project (adding features, rules and assertions to JUnit) child of a parent project injecting dependencies. The class depending on the org.junit.rules package was in src/main/java.

So I added a dependency on junit without test scope and it solved the problem :

pom.xml of the test-util project :

  junit
  junit

pom.xml of the parent project :

  junit
  junit
  test