Testing with Spring and Maven: applicationContext

Question

Seems that question old as world, but I still can\'t find out the solution..

I\'m trying to run simple test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
         


        

Answer 1

I think best practice is to put your application context file for testing PersonsPopulateTest-context.xml under src/test/resources. This file will be copied into target/test-classes and you can refer to it in your test class as below:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:**/PersonsPopulateTest-context.xml"})
@Transactional
public class PersonsPopulateTest {

}

If you still want to refer to applicationContext.xml under src/main/resources, then you have to include it as follow:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"file:src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml"})
@Transactional
public class PersonsPopulateTest {

}

It worked for me.