The method org.testng.TestNG.setAnnotations is no longer in testng 6.3. I am using gradle version 0.9.2, but I see that method is still called in the latest gradle source. Here is the exception
org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.TestSuiteExecutionException: Could not complete execution for test process 'Gradle Worker 1'. at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.SuiteTestClassProcessor.stop(SuiteTestClassProcessor.java:60) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ContextClassLoaderDispatch.dispatch(ContextClassLoaderDispatch.java:32) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ProxyDispatchAdapter$DispatchingInvocationHandler.invoke(ProxyDispatchAdapter.java:75) at $Proxy4.stop(Unknown Source) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.worker.TestWorker.stop(TestWorker.java:91) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:35) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24) at org.gradle.messaging.remote.internal.MethodInvocationUnmarshallingDispatch.dispatch(MethodInvocationUnmarshallingDispatch.java:48) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.DiscardOnFailureDispatch.dispatch(DiscardOnFailureDispatch.java:31) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.AsyncDispatch.dispatchMessages(AsyncDispatch.java:129) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.AsyncDispatch.access$000(AsyncDispatch.java:33) at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.AsyncDispatch$1.run(AsyncDispatch.java:69) at org.gradle.messaging.concurrent.DefaultExecutorFactory$StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(DefaultExecutorFactory.java:63) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.testng.TestNG.setAnnotations(Ljava/lang/String;)V at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.testng.TestNGTestClassProcessor.stop(TestNGTestClassProcessor.java:71) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.testing.SuiteTestClassProcessor.stop(SuiteTestClassProcessor.java:58) ... 25 more