I am new to arquillian and I am trying to execute an Arquillian test which is failing with the below error> I tried googling around but couldn't find a fix for the same.

I am using maven to execute my test on Websphere Liberty Profile.

Running UnitTestTest

(E) ManagerProcessing

        (O) LoadableExtensionLoader.load

        (E) ServiceRegistryLoader

(E) ManagerStarted

        (O) ConfigurationRegistrar.loadConfiguration

        (E) NoSuchMethodError

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.341 sec <<< FAILURE!

UnitTestTest  Time elapsed: 0.34 sec  <<< ERROR!

java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create new instance of class org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor

        at org.jboss.arquillian.test.spi.SecurityActions.newInstance(SecurityActions.java:165)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.test.spi.SecurityActions.newInstance(SecurityActions.java:102)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.test.spi.TestRunnerAdaptorBuilder.build(TestRunnerAdaptorBuilder.java:52)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.ArquillianTestRunner.run(ArquillianTestRunner.java:121)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian.run(Arquillian.java:42)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:252)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:141)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:112)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:115)

        at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:75)

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)

        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.test.spi.SecurityActions.newInstance(SecurityActions.java:161)

        ... 16 more

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.jboss.shrinkwrap.descriptor.api.DescriptorImporter.fromString(Ljava/lang/String;)Lorg/jboss/shrinkwrap/descript

or/api/Descriptor;

        at org.jboss.arquillian.config.impl.extension.ConfigurationSysPropResolver.resolveSystemProperties(ConfigurationSysPropResolver.java:55)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.config.impl.extension.ConfigurationRegistrar.loadConfiguration(ConfigurationRegistrar.java:54)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:146)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:117)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.start(ManagerImpl.java:313)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor.<init>(EventTestRunnerAdaptor.java:66)

        ... 21 more

Results :

Tests in error:

  UnitTestTest: Could not create new instance of class org.jboss.arquillian.test.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor