Spring Framework: Failed to load ApplicationContext - spring

Question

While running script in Spring framework it is throwing error message as "Failed to load ApplicationContext". I have my ApplicationContext.xml file under src/test/resources
And i was using
#RunWith(value = Parameterized.class)
public class CustomerTest extends FunctionLibrary { ... }
After some suggestions from forum i used
#RunWith(value = Parameterized.class)
#ContextConfiguration(locations = "file:src/test/resources/applicationContext.xml")
public class CustomerTest extends FunctionLibrary { ... }
Still i am getting the same error message. Please anyone tell me how to resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Sudhansu

Answer 1

There are several problems
1) use #RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
2) Your path sounds like you have a maven project. In a maven project, src/test/resources will be added to the classpath when the tests run. So use:
#ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:applicationContext.xml")
If you haven an other file in src/main/resources withe the same name, then I recommend to rename the one in src/test/resources to test-applicationContext.xml and then use #ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:test-applicationContext.xml"), just to reduce the the number of knot in your brain
Complete example:
package com.test.service;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration(classpath:test-ApplicationContext.xml)
public class WhateverTest {
...
}
pom excerpt:
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>3.2.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>