Android Studio 3.6 Test framework quit unexpectedly, Crash of orchestrator

Got same error in Android Studio 4.1, adding below dependency

androidTestImplementation "androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:x.x.x"

along with adding

android {
    defaultConfig {
        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
}

solved the problem

Seems like its a Bug of AS 3.6.

According to this thread in Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/f9xsz2/anyone_else_having_issues_running_androidtest/

It will be fixed in 3.6.2.

I'm on AS 4.1.1 and the bug is still there if you use fragment-testing artifact. None of the solutions above worked.

In my case what solved the problem was to exclude the core dependency from the artifact

debugImplementation ("androidx.fragment:fragment-testing:1.2.5", {
    exclude group: 'androidx.test', module: 'core'
})

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