Intellij Cannot resolve symbol RunWith even if maven dependencies found

Question

My IntelliJ IDEA sees the JUnit 4 Maven dependencies.

But does not resolve any symbol coming from these dependencies

Any idea?

Did you try clean/rebuilding your project as a sanity check question :)? — Shiraaz.M, Nov 29 '15 at 20:29
I didn't find any clean action, but i use the build > Rebuild Project and it says package org.junit.runner does not exist and 4 other errors of the same kind. — Michael Courcy, Nov 29 '15 at 20:39
This is a similar question to yours http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23579746/using-intellij-maven-to-import-libraries-cannot-resolve-symbol?rq=1 — Shiraaz.M, Nov 29 '15 at 20:43
Yes and I also did both : reimport and use the same maven installation. But with no effect. — Michael Courcy, Nov 29 '15 at 20:53
`junit` in `test` scope and `BookSearchTest` test class under source directory (`src/main/java`) ? — Ori Dar, Nov 29 '15 at 21:02
I finally build the project with eclipse and reimport in Inteliji. No class path problem anymore. So it's solved, I guess i missed something during the creation of the project. Thanks for your help. — Michael Courcy, Nov 29 '15 at 23:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '15 at 19:06

I followed these steps and was able to code a TestCase with Intellij code insight.

In a shell, I did the following

mkdir so33987661
mkdir so33987661/src/
mkdir so33987661/src/test
mkdir so33987661/src/test/java
cd so33987661
vi pom.xml

My pom.xml

<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.so33987661</groupId>
    <artifactId>my-project</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

Back to Intellij, choose File menu, New, Project from Existing Sources.

Open the so33987661/pom.xml file.

Check the Import Maven Projects Automatically.

Accept the defaults for the rest of the screens by clicking Next until the project is created.

Navigate to the src/test/java folder and create a new test and code, code, code.

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
public class BookSearchTest {

    @Test
    public void testIt() throws Exception {
        // todo: testIt()!
    }
}

I delete the .idea file and reimport the project, the problem was fixed then. That was my firts try of intellij I guessed I mess something. I can't remember if "Import Maven Projects Automatically" was checked when this problem happened, but it is now.Thanks anyway. — Michael Courcy, Jan 02 '16 at 11:33
For me, this solution worked even without reimporting project (just unchecking and checking back Import automatically.. choice). — Martin D, Oct 11 '17 at 19:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '15 at 10:04

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I encountered the same problem. Open your pom.xml, find "junit". See scope value, maybe 'test'. if u import junit in main package, intellij idea will throw error, but not eclipse. Use junit in right scope can solve the problem. I fixed my error.

answered Dec 31 '15 at 10:04

卢海宁

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That was not the case, the test was in the standard directory, the project was a classical maven project. – Michael Courcy Jan 02 '16 at 11:23
I'm not sure my scope was test but if it was a standard scope it should be seen in a test. I delete the .idea and reimport the project without changing anything else and the problem solved out. Thanks anyway. – Michael Courcy Jan 02 '16 at 11:27

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 31 '15 at 11:22

# 1 check in settings -> build, execution, deployment -> build tools -> maven, if "User settings file" and (if you are using local repo) "Local repository" paths are set correctly.

# 2 check in settings -> build, execution, deployment -> compiler -> java compiler if target bytecode version is that you expecting. (sometimes after adding new dependency Intelli is setting it to 1.5)

# 3 in project settings (default shortcut ctrl+alt+shift+s) project settings -> project

ProjectSDK should point to correct destination
Project language level should be version that you are using

in project settings -> modules Language Level should be version that you are using

Thanks for this answers, that will be useful later on but as I said in my previous comment I rebuilt the project and the problem solved out. — Michael Courcy, Jan 02 '16 at 11:21

Intellij Cannot resolve symbol RunWith even if maven dependencies found

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