Hello team,

So I think most are already aware of this issue induced by the latest update of Selenium.

My questions are:

  • When can we expect a fix
  • Is there any workaround for this for Appium V2? Current stack trace even without using that class:
  •  There was an error in the forked process
    [ERROR] 
    [ERROR] An error occurred while instantiating class common.runner.CucumberRunnerTest: org/openqa/selenium/Rotatable
    [ERROR] org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: There was an error in the forked process
    [ERROR] 
    [ERROR] An error occurred while instantiating class common.runner.CucumberRunnerTest: org/openqa/selenium/Rotatable
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork(ForkStarter.java:699)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:311)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run(ForkStarter.java:268)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1332)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1165)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:929)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:137)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.doExecute2(MojoExecutor.java:370)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.doExecute(MojoExecutor.java:351)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:215)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:171)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:163)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:294)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:192)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:105)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:960)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:293)
    [ERROR]         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:196)
    [ERROR]         at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    [ERROR]         at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    [ERROR]         at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    [ERROR]         at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    [ERROR]         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:282)
    [ERROR]         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:225)
    [ERROR]         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:406)
    [ERROR]         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:347)
    [ERROR] 
    [ERROR] -> [Help 1]
    [ERROR] 
    [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
    [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
    [ERROR] 
    [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
    [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
    

    Dependencies: appium java client 8.2.0, Selenium support: 3.141.59

    Thanks in advance!