ContextConfiguration inheritance in junit

Question

I am trying to mock a service thats fetch data from redis.I have injected the beans in spring context in a new context file test-context.xml But I have other contexts files A.xml,B.xml which referes to methods in the beanS in test-context.xml.I read the question in enter link description here

It creates a BaseTest class but when i inherit the class my context file in child class gets loaded first instead it should load the context file of base class first as beans in child class contexts are dependent on base class context.

 @ContextConfiguration(locations = { "/META-INF/spring/testContext.xml" }) 
 public abstract class myBaseTest { 
 @Before
 public void init() {
    // custom initialization code for resources loaded by testContext.xml 
 }

 @After
public void cleanup() {
    // custom cleanup code for resources loaded by testContext.xml
}
}

 @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
 @ContextConfiguration(locations = { "/META-INF/spring/A.xml",
                                 "/META-  INF/spring/B.xml" }) 
 public class childTest extends myBaseTest { ... }

this is not a answer to your question but look at this post to understand why not to use inheritance in testing the system http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/unit-testing/3-reasons-why-we-should-not-use-inheritance-in-our-tests/ — Vihar, May 03 '15 at 15:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '15 at 08:59

You might simply add parent context into child configuration.

 @ContextConfiguration(locations = { "/META-INF/spring/testContext.xml",
                             "/META-INF/spring/A.xml",
                             "/META-INF/spring/B.xml"})

Methods with @Before and @After will work properly if you don't override them.

ContextConfiguration inheritance in junit

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