Failure to Receive Response from Mock Server - NoHttpResponseException

[ISanjeevKumar]

I am encountering an issue while running consumer contract tests using the pact library version 4.1.4 in my Kotlin project. During the execution of the test, I am consistently receiving a NoHttpResponseException with the error message: "localhost:9020 failed to respond.

Below are the dependencies that I am using in my gradle project:

Plugins
Kotlin 1.6.20
au.com.dius.pact plugin version 4.1.4
Spring Boot 2.7.12
io.spring.dependency-management version 1.0.11.RELEASE

Test Dependencies:
au.com.dius:pact-jvm-consumer-junit5:4.0.10
au.com.dius:pact-jvm-provider-junit5:4.0.10

stack trace:
18:03:52.682 [HTTP-Dispatcher] DEBUG au.com.dius.pact.core.matchers.RequestMatching - Request mismatch: []
18:03:52.690 [Test worker] DEBUG org.apache.http.wire - http-outgoing-1 << "end of stream"
18:03:52.692 [Test worker] DEBUG org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultManagedHttpClientConnection - http-outgoing-1: Close connection
18:03:52.693 [Test worker] DEBUG org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultManagedHttpClientConnection - http-outgoing-1: Shutdown connection
18:03:52.694 [Test worker] DEBUG org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec - Connection discarded
18:03:52.697 [Test worker] DEBUG org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager - Connection released: [id: 0][route: {}->http://localhost:9020/][total available: 0; route allocated: 0 of 100; total allocated: 0 of 200]
18:04:11.402 [Test worker] DEBUG au.com.dius.pact.consumer.BaseJdkMockServer - Mock server shutdown
[Test worker] DEBUG au.com.dius.pact.consumer.BaseJdkMockServer - Mock server shutdown
localhost:9020 failed to respond
org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException: localhost:9020 failed to respond
at app//org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:141)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultHttpResponseParser.java:56)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:259)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.DefaultBHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultBHttpClientConnection.java:163)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.conn.CPoolProxy.receiveResponseHeader(CPoolProxy.java:157)
at app//org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:273)
at app//org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:125)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:272)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:186)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83)
at app//org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:56)
at app//org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.internalExecute(Request.java:173)
at app//org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.execute(Request.java:177)

Any help would Be appreciated.