Surefire Maven plugin: “Corrupted STDOUT by directly writing to native stream in forked JVM”

Question

My JUnit tests are failing when running them through Maven and the Surefire plugin (version information below). I see the error message:

Corrupted STDOUT by direc         


        

Answer 1

The newer Surefire plugin versions are completely buggy and broken. for me (tested all the way up to Java 12) the only solution was to stick with 2.20.

Don't use 2.20.1 either, that failed with a NPE, although maybe it is specific to particular tests, but I don't have time to investigate that.