how to fix the maven surefire plugin error [there was error in the forked process]?

Question

I am trying to run my sample project which uses Maven- testNG-cucumber and deploy it using docker . here is my Dockerfile

FROM    maven:3.6.0-jdk-8
RUN     mkdir /docker
WORKDIR /docker
COPY    pom.xml .
COPY    testng.xml .
COPY    src .
RUN     mvn clean verify 

POM.XML

    <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.5</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-jvm-deps</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.5</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.5</version>
        <scope>compile</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>junit</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
        <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
        <version>6.9.8</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>2.44.0</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.20.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <suiteXmlFiles>
                    <suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                </suiteXmlFiles>
                <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>execution</id>
                    <phase>verify</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>generate</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <projectName>Sample</projectName>
                        <outputDirectory>target/cucumber-reports/advanced-reports</outputDirectory>
                        <cucumberOutput>target/cucumber-reports/CucumberTestReport.json</cucumberOutput>
                        <buildNumber>1</buildNumber>
                        <parallelTesting>false</parallelTesting>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

above scenario works completely fine when i run the project locally using mvn verify .Then i try to build the image using docker build -t sample . . this time i have got the following error .

 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.20.1:test (default-test) on project Sample: There are test failures.
 [ERROR] Please refer to /docker/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.

 [ERROR] Please refer to dump files (if any exist) [date]-jvmRun[N].dump, [date].dumpstream and [date]-jvmRun[N].dumpstream.

 [ERROR] There was an error in the forked process

 [ERROR] Cannot find class in classpath: TestRunner
 [ERROR] org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooterForkException: There was an error in the forked process

 [ERROR] Cannot find class in classpath: TestRunner
 [ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork
 (ForkStarter.java:673)
 [ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.fork
 (ForkStarter.java:535)
 [ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run 
 (ForkStarter.java:280)
 [ERROR] at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.booterclient.ForkStarter.run
 (ForkStarter.java:245)
 [ERROR] at 
 org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.executeProvider
 (AbstractSurefireMojo.java:1124)
 [ERROR]         at 
 org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.AbstractSurefireMojo.
 executeAfterPreconditionsChecked(AbstractSurefireMojo.java:954)

Any help would be much appreciated

Solution

I faced the same issue but it got resolved with different solution, you can check below problems as well.

Actually i have given the wrong testNG.xml path in POM.XML that's why it was throwing me that error. Please cross verify your testNG.xml path.

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