I m having trouble using Kotest with a multi platform projec

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I m having trouble using Kotest with a multi platform project Using the new 1 4 M3 project wizard I started a new MpTest project with IOS and Android as targets The wizard generates a number of modules the one I m focusing on for this issue is the shared module Shared gets 6 source directories built by the M3 wizard androidMain androidTest commonMain commonTest iosMain and iosTest For this issue I m using commonMain for a couple of multi platform classes and androidTest for Kotest 4 1 1 unit tests of the commonMain classes The trouble occurs when using the plugin to attempt to debug the unit test class in this case BasicsTest ``` Exception in thread main java lang ClassNotFoundException BasicsTest``` Looking at the invoked gradle build I can see no evidence that it attempted to build the unit test class BasicsTest so it s not on the classpath If I then try to edit the Run Configuration for the debug attempt it shows the plugin selected the shared classpath by default Dropping down the list of classpaths available does not show shared androidTest as a choice So I have no way to invoke a debug of a unit test on a multi platform project s shared module Is this a Kotest plugin issue Or a multiplatform M3 issue Until I resolve this I don t see a way to debug run Kotest unit tests that are using common classes in the IDE Thanks in advance for any info help FWIW I have already posted a precursor question of this problem as a recent thread in < C0KLZSCHF|eap> in that thread we concluded it better to post here

Skolson5903 · Answer

Whatever this is it isn t just Kotest In the same project setup I wrote a basic test class in commonTest using kotlin test package stuff available for multi platform and it gets the same error It acts similar in Idea as this old thread So I m gonna start digging into what s going on with gradle in this config Since now this issue only involves 1 4 M3 and multi platform would this post be better off in the < C3PQML5NU|multiplatform> channel until I can find the root cause Or is it still helpful to Kotest

sam · Answer

Yes I think it would be useful to keep us aprised