Test Hangs at "Instantiating tests..." for 20 seconds using Gradle

I am running a test using Gradle and it says "Instantiating tests..." for about 20 seconds before actually running the test. How can I avoid this?

I am using Quarkus 2.2.3.Final, and gradle-7.2.

My test class:

class OrganizationServiceImplTest {
    @Test
    void getAllOrganizations() {
        assertTrue(true);
    }
}

The Run Configuration shows the following run command:

:test --tests "com.doortodoor.services.impl.OrganizationServiceImplTest.getAllOrganizations"

Idea Log File shows as follows:

2022-11-09 21:56:29,387 [117677008]   INFO - s.plugins.gradle.GradleManager - Instructing gradle to use java from C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-17.0.2 
2022-11-09 21:56:29,387 [117677008]   INFO - s.plugins.gradle.GradleManager - Instructing gradle to use java from C:\Program Files\OpenJDK\jdk-17.0.2 
2022-11-09 21:56:29,466 [117677087]   INFO - xecution.GradleExecutionHelper - Passing command-line args to Gradle Tooling API: --init-script C:\Users\242924\AppData\Local\Temp\1\ijmapper.gradle --tests com.doortodoor.services.impl.OrganizationServiceImplTest.getAllOrganizations --init-script C:\Users\242924\AppData\Local\Temp\1\ijresolvers.gradle 
2022-11-09 21:56:30,284 [117677905]   INFO - rationStore.ComponentStoreImpl - Saving appDaemonCodeAnalyzerSettings took 64 ms 
2022-11-09 21:56:30,381 [117678002]   INFO - rationStore.ComponentStoreImpl - Saving Project(name=quarkus-quickstart-security, containerState=COMPONENT_CREATED, componentStore=C:\source\quarkus-quickstart-security)Encoding took 11 ms, RunManager took 36 ms

Solutions I have tried that didn't work include:

Solution 1: Use Eclipse Compiler

Why does IntelliJ take 20+ seconds to launch a unit test? Compiler -> Java Compiler

Use compiler: Eclipse
Generate no warnings

Problem: It didn't improve the time.

Solution 2: Use shared Spring Context

Gradle is executing tests terribly slow because it is adding to much tests to the suite

Problem: I'm not annotating my tests with @SpringBootTest (or using Spring for that matter).

Solution 3: Enable Eclipse features such as incremental compilation

Intellij idea tests compilation takes too long (compared with Eclipse)

Solution

For anybody wondering, I was able to resolve the long hanging time by changing the test runner to IntelliJ Idea in File | Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle.