\nThe Failure Trace displayed a message stating java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org\/hamcrest\/SelfDescribing\n<\/div>\n
\n I made sure that I had JUnit 4 and org.hamcrest.core along with the Java library in my project but still faced this issue. <\/p>\n After analyzing quite a bit, I noticed that my JRE System Library also has JUnit files associated. I added the org.hamcrest.core_1xx.jar to my JRE path as shown below. I had to Google around quite a bit to find the solution. I noticed there are multiple causes for this issue. If the solution outlined in this blog did not help you, try one of these helpful links: I hit the following issue while trying to run a JUnit test in Eclipse: initializationError The Failure Trace displayed a message stating java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org\/hamcrest\/SelfDescribing I made sure that I had JUnit 4 and org.hamcrest.core along with the Java library in my project but still faced this issue. After analyzing quite a bit, I noticed that my JRE System Library also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java","category-junit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"initializationError](\"http:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hamcrest-Issue.jpg\")
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\nI ran the test again. This time the test run was successful.
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\nOther links which may help you to solve this issue<\/h3>\n
\n1. http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/14539072\/java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-org-hamcrest-selfdescribing<\/a>
\n2. http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/15190699\/eclipse-junit-possible-causes-of-seeing-initializationerror-in-eclipse-windo<\/a><\/p>\n
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