diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java
index 348cab1594e8e..88021968f3a8b 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java
@@ -618,10 +618,9 @@ public String apply(Class<?> aClass) {
                             ClassWriter.COMPUTE_FRAMES | ClassWriter.COMPUTE_MAXS);
                     cr.accept(new TestTracingProcessor.TracingClassVisitor(writer, i), 0);
                     transformedClasses.put(i.replace('.', '/') + ".class", writer.toByteArray());
-                } catch (IOException e) {
-                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    log.error("Failed to instrument " + i + " for usage tracking", e);
                 }
-
             }
             cl = testApplication.createRuntimeClassLoader(testApplication.getAugmentClassLoader(), Collections.emptyMap(),
                     transformedClasses);