DevTest junitlisa Ant task exception when using a MARI file

Products

• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

The Service Virtualization documentation shows that the junitlisa Ant Task has the option of a mari attribute.
See:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/devops/devtest-solutions/10-6/administering/general-administration/running-devtest-with-ant-and-junit/devtest-solutions-ant-tasks.html

Using a MARI file results in the following exception but there is no problem using a MAR file: 
junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: DevTest JUnit Runner: Could not stage the suite of tests due to error: ============================================================================ | Exception: ============================================================================ | Message: Error loading suite entry E:\t1/Tests/Suites/pipeline.mari with error: An error occurred loading suite file form the MAR info: E:/t1\Tests\Suites\pipeline.ste ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Trapped Exception: An error occurred loading suite file form the MAR info: E:/t1\Tests\Suites\pipeline.ste | Trapped Message: java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occurred loading suite file form the MAR info: E:/t1\Tests\Suites\pipeline.ste ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- STACK TRACE java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occurred loading suite file form the MAR info: E:/t1\Tests\Suites\pipeline.ste at com.itko.lisa.testing.SuiteEntry.loadByMARInfo(SuiteEntry.java:431) at com.itko.lisa.testing.SuiteEntry.addRegressionRunners(SuiteEntry.java:328) at com.itko.lisa.testing.StagedSuite.addTestByMARInfo(StagedSuite.java:794) at com.itko.lisa.testing.StagedSuite.setupRegression(StagedSuite.java:1632) at com.itko.lisa.testing.JUnitRunLISA.suite(JUnitRunLISA.java:140) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.run(JUnitTestRunner.java:413) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.launch(JUnitTestRunner.java:1197) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.main(JUnitTestRunner.java:1042) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.itko.lisa.testing.SuiteEntry.loadSuite(SuiteEntry.java:559) at com.itko.lisa.testing.SuiteEntry.loadByMARInfo(SuiteEntry.java:425) ... 11 more

Environment

Release : 10.6

Component : DevTest Plugins

Resolution

Open a support case to request patch patch_DE517317_10.6.0_GA.jar