spring-test-dbunit can't find #Test annotation - spring

Question

I've set up spring-test-dbunit but I get following exception:
testSometing(com.my.package.dbunit.DbUnit) Time elapsed: 13.013 s <<<
ERROR! java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation(Ljava/lang/reflect/AnnotatedElement;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/annotation/Annotation;
The test class looks like following:
package com.my.package.dbunit;
import com.github.springtestdbunit.DbUnitTestExecutionListener;
import com.github.springtestdbunit.annotation.DatabaseSetup;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener;
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration("/test-application.xml")
#TestExecutionListeners({DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class, DbUnitTestExecutionListener.class, DbUnitTestExecutionListener.class})
public class DbUnit {
#Autowired
public MyDAO myDAO;
#Test
#DatabaseSetup("target/partial.xml")
public void testSometing() throws Exception {
int rootId = 123;
MyClass root = myDAO.getById(rootId);
}
}
The test-application.xml looks like following:
...
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
</bean>
...
pom.xml looks like this
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.dbunit</groupId>
<artifactId>dbunit</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.springtestdbunit</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test-dbunit</artifactId>
<version>1.3.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
...
It seems like that the error exists because the #Test annotation can't be resolved. I don't know why

Answer 1

Your version of spring-test-dbunit is most probably incompatible with your spring-version. spring-test-dbunit in version 1.3.0 (which seems to be the most recent one) depends on Spring 4.2.5. You are probably using a more recent Spring version in your project which does not have a findAnnotation method in AnnotationUtils any more.
You basically have two things that you can do right now:
Use Spring 4 (which might be problematic in the future, when support is dropped)
Find an alternative to spring-test-dbunit