http://www.kaigrabfelder.de/en/2011/04/02/mockito_spring_abstractjunit4springcontexttests.html I know some people consider it bad practise. But nethertheless I still believe that there is sometimes no alternative to tests that include startup of spring application contexts and initialization of in memory database. Actually I quite like those tests ... en Kai Grabfelder Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:39:03 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.kaigrabfelder.de/en/2011/04/02/mockito_spring_abstractjunit4springcontexttests.html#comment1301776743978 I don't think anyone considers it bad pratice to do tests involving databases or spring contexts. It's just a question of terminology. Such a Test can NEVER be a unit test (therefore your abstract class is badly named) as it is not testing a single unit of code. It is therefore always an integration test. Nothing bad about doing integration tests using JUnit though. Frz http://www.kaigrabfelder.de/en/2011/04/02/mockito_spring_abstractjunit4springcontexttests.html#comments http://www.kaigrabfelder.de/en/2011/04/02/mockito_spring_abstractjunit4springcontexttests.html#comment1301776743978 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:39:03 GMT