Junit Test failing due to Parent applicationContext bean - spring

Question

My test case is failing with the below error :
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'acesFormFactory' defined in class path resource [/META-INF/aces-beans.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'promotionMarshaller' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'promotionMarshaller' is defined
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:329)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:107)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveConstructorArguments(ConstructorResolver.java:629)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:148)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1049)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:953)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:490)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:461)
Now here is my Test Class :
#WebAppConfiguration
#ContextConfiguration(locations = {
"classpath:/META-INF/aces-beans.xml",
"classpath:/META-INF/aces-flow-config.xml" })
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#TestExecutionListeners({ DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class,
DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener.class })
public class ApplicationContextTest {
#Resource
private AcesFormFactory acesFormFactory;
#Test
public void paymentFormFactoryAvailable() {
assertThat(acesFormFactory, is(notNullValue()));
assertThat(acesFormFactory, is(instanceOf(AcesFormFactoryImpl.class)));
}
}
Here promotionMarshaller in injected in acesFormFactory as a constructor arg in aces-beans.xml. And the definition of promotionMarshaller is there in ApplicationContext.xml of webapp-control which is there in the dependency list of pom.xml of the current component.
<dependency>
<groupId>webapp</groupId>
<artifactId>webapp-control</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>webapp</groupId>
<artifactId>webapp-control</artifactId>
<classifier>tests</classifier>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
I don't get why the parent application context is not getting loaded while running the Junit Test case. Please look into this as I am stuck here for 2 days now.
Here's a snippet from aces-beans.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.5.xsd">
<bean id="acesFormFactory"
class="com.company.impl.AcesFormFactoryImpl">
<constructor-arg ref="checkoutPromotionMarshaller" />
</bean>
My environment is Spring 3.2.1, Junit 4, JDK 1.7, Maven 3.0.4