SpringJUnit4ClassRunner class not found

I fixed this one by

• Deleting my local maven repo (~/.m2/repository) and
• In eclipse forcing a new build (Project->Clean...)

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FYI, Add this in your pom.xml

 <dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

I downloaded your code and got it working locally, as long as I included the relevant import statements:

import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.Test;
...

Perhaps you're missing an import somewhere.

Go to pom.xml and make sure your file contain this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Also make sure that in this dependency is no "scope" node:

<scope>test</scope>