Sample code to show apparent bug in Spring test context framework

ConcreteTest.java

@Transactional
public class ConcreteTest extends TestBase {

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    // Create sample data in the database
  }
  
  // Further test methods
}

TestBase.java

@RunWith(SpringJunit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(…)
public abstract class TestBase {
 
  @Test
  public void commonTest() {
    
  }
}

The problem here is that for the tests executed in ConcreteTest the setUp(…) method is not executed in a transaction for the commonTest() method. It feels like the @Transactional annotation is not found as the declaring class of the test method is inspected but not the currently executed test class.

This is the same issue discussed in the following JIRA ticket:

https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-7824

The problem here is that for the tests executed in ConcreteTest the setUp(…) method is not executed in a transaction for the commonTest() method.

That is true for commonTest() (since it is not declared as transactional, either at the method or class level), but all other test methods declared in ConcreteTest would have setUp() executed within their transactions.