Selenium 3.7.1 gson dependency throwing a ClassNotFoundException - maven

Question

OS:
Windows 10
Selenium Version:
3.7.1 (JAVA)
Browser:
Chrome 62.0.3 (64bit)
Chrome driver 2.33.0
After upgrading to Selenium 3.7.1 and chrome driver 2.33.0 my tests are failing due to a Class not found exception on the gson jar. I can see the jar in my maven dependencies. I can get around this issue from inside my eclipse environment by adding the gson as an external jar but this limits me to only running from the IDE.
Has anyone else seen this issue or can anyone see where I'm gone wrong? As gson is included as a dependency of selenium I presume I shouldn't have to add the dependency to my pom. Any help would be great, thanks in advance
Regards
Donagh
Console output
org.testng.TestNGException:
Cannot instantiate class Reg_Editor.EditFunctionality
at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:31)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance1(ClassHelper.java:410)
at org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createInstance(ClassHelper.java:323)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getDefaultInstance(ClassImpl.java:126)
at org.testng.internal.ClassImpl.getInstances(ClassImpl.java:191)
at org.testng.TestClass.getInstances(TestClass.java:99)
at org.testng.TestClass.initTestClassesAndInstances(TestClass.java:85)
at org.testng.TestClass.init(TestClass.java:77)
at org.testng.TestClass.<init>(TestClass.java:42)
at org.testng.TestRunner.initMethods(TestRunner.java:423)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:250)
at org.testng.TestRunner.init(TestRunner.java:220)
at org.testng.TestRunner.<init>(TestRunner.java:169)
at org.testng.remote.support.RemoteTestNG6_10$1.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG6_10.java:28)
at org.testng.remote.support.RemoteTestNG6_10$DelegatingTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(RemoteTestNG6_10.java:61)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner$ProxyTestRunnerFactory.newTestRunner(SuiteRunner.java:616)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.init(SuiteRunner.java:185)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.<init>(SuiteRunner.java:131)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunner(TestNG.java:1383)
at org.testng.TestNG.createSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:1363)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1217)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1144)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1115)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.testng.internal.ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance(ObjectFactoryImpl.java:23)
... 25 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/gson/JsonParseException
at org.openqa.selenium.logging.profiler.HttpProfilerLogEntry.constructMessage(HttpProfilerLogEntry.java:37)
at org.openqa.selenium.logging.profiler.HttpProfilerLogEntry.<init>(HttpProfilerLogEntry.java:29)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:600)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:219)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:142)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:161)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:107)
at Util.EMDriverSingleton.setLocalDriver(EMDriverSingleton.java:81)
at Util.EMDriverSingleton.getDriver(EMDriverSingleton.java:46)
at Util.Supertest.<init>(Supertest.java:82)
at Reg_Editor.EditFunctionality.<init>(EditFunctionality.java:16)
... 30 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.gson.JsonParseException
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 43 more
POM
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.ExpertModels</groupId>
<artifactId>Expert_Models</artifactId>
<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<browser>${browser}</browser>
<deployment>${deployment}</deployment>
<seleniumGrid>${seleniumGrid}</seleniumGrid>
<threadCount>0</threadCount>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>testNG XML Files\${suiteXmlFile}</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>Expert_Models</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<!--Surefire Reporting POM Dependency -->
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<showSuccess>true</showSuccess>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
<!--Selenium Dependency -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
<artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
<version>3.0.3</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<!--EXTENT REPORTS DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.relevantcodes</groupId>
<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
<version>2.41.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/jstl -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
<artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
<version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--JUNIT DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
<!--TESTNG DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.11</version>
</dependency>
<!--JXL DEPENDENCY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.jexcelapi</groupId>
<artifactId>jxl</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
</dependency>
<!--Chrome Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.33.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--IE Edge Driver for Maven -->
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.47.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- IE Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Answer 1

Remove the following from POM.xml
<!--Chrome Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.33.0</version>
</dependency>
<!--IE Edge Driver for Maven -->
<!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId> <artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.47.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- IE Driver for Maven -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.53.1</version>
</dependency>
These drivers are transitive dependencies of selenium-java, so there are automatically resolved by Maven and there is no need to declare them in pom.xml.
If you declare them in th POM.XML, this causes versions conflict of these libraries. Mavens pick a version declared in the POM and ignores the nevest version.
If you are using eclipse, you can observe this on dependency hierarch tab, it looks like this