Maven sure fire plugin npe problem.

[Tim Wu T]

Hi everyone,

I am not sure if some of you met this problem before, we have some smoke test 
in Jenkins sever, which will run some test case through maven sure fire plugin, 
version is 2.17

But it will always throw an exception like this:
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.report.SmartStackTraceParser.<init>(SmartStackTraceParser.java:60)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.report.PojoStackTraceWriter.smartTrimmedStackTrace(PojoStackTraceWriter.java:60)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkingRunListener.encode(ForkingRunListener.java:328)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkingRunListener.encode(ForkingRunListener.java:312)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkingRunListener.toString(ForkingRunListener.java:258)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkingRunListener.testFailed(ForkingRunListener.java:137)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGReporter.onTestFailure(TestNGReporter.java:105)
     at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1901)
     at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1885)
     at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:788)
     at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:907)
     at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1237)
     at 
org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:127)
     at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:111)
     at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:767)
     at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617)
     at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
     at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
     at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
     at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
     at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:51)
     at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:85)
     at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1197)
     at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1122)
     at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1030)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.run(TestNGExecutor.java:293)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGXmlTestSuite.execute(TestNGXmlTestSuite.java:84)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGProvider.invoke(TestNGProvider.java:91)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:200)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:153)
     at 
org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:103)



I try to google something, but I don't get any good feedback.

Thanks in advance.

Br,
Tim