Engine Exception That's about it! My test won't ...

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[MarkRS]

Engine Exception

That's about it! My test won't run, giving this error and the name of the test it was running and that's it, no other indication.
How do I go about getting more information?

[Emil Kantis]

Sounds like a potential bug, or problem with the test setup.. can you describe how you run the tests, perhaps share a small sample?

[MarkRS]

In trying to create a test project to make a small sample I have found out a few things, and returning to my real project and moving my test into my shared module's "commonTest" directory it now fail complaining that I have no JDK set.
I the project settings->Build,Execution,Deployment->Build Tools->Gradle I do have a JDK set, so presumably it needs setting somewhere else?

[Emil Kantis]

Aha, it sounds like you're doing multiplatform-testing.
I think the caveat here still applies: https://kotest.io/docs/framework/project-setup.html
Are you trying to launch tests using the gutter icons or using gradle?

[MarkRS]

Yes, definitely MPP, and I have read that article and tried to follow its setup, apparently without success.

Presumably you're saying that those icons don't work either at all or in common code? I didn't notice this. Perhaps I over-trusted the statement on the Quick Start page that starts "Kotest is a multiplatform project".

I s'pose I should know never to trust the gutter press 😕