Failed to load ApplicationContext from Unit Test FileNotFound

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I am creating a Maven Spring project  which includes MVC  Data and Security  My Spring applicationContext-  xml files are located at  src main resources spring   My TestCase is placed at  src test java my package controller  and its code is    RunWith SpringJUnit4ClassRunner class   ContextConfiguration locations          classpath spring applicationContext xml        classpath spring applicationContext-jpa xml        classpath spring applicationContext-security xml     public class MyControllerTest extends TestCase        Autowired     private MyController myController        Test     public void myMethod test               When I right click on the test class and run as JUnit  I get   java lang IllegalStateException  Failed to load ApplicationContext at org springframework test context CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate loadContext CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate java 99  at org springframework test context DefaultTestContext getApplicationContext DefaultTestContext java 101  at         Caused by  org springframework beans factory BeanDefinitionStoreException    IOException parsing XML document from class path resource    applicationContext xml   nested exception is java io FileNotFoundException    class path resource  applicationContext xml  cannot be opened because it does not exist          If I try to remove applicationContext xml from the locations  I still get exactly the same error  The complete stack trace is this   java lang IllegalStateException  Failed to load ApplicationContext at org springframework test context CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate loadContext CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate java 99  at org springframework test context DefaultTestContext getApplicationContext DefaultTestContext java 101  at org springframework test context support DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener injectDependencies DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener java 109  at org springframework test context support DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener prepareTestInstance DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener java 75  at org springframework test context TestContextManager prepareTestInstance TestContextManager java 331  at org springframework test context junit4 SpringJUnit4ClassRunner createTest SpringJUnit4ClassRunner java 213  at org springframework test context junit4 SpringJUnit4ClassRunner 1 runReflectiveCall SpringJUnit4ClassRunner java 290  at org junit internal runners model ReflectiveCallable run ReflectiveCallable java 12  at org springframework test context junit4 SpringJUnit4ClassRunner methodBlock SpringJUnit4ClassRunner java 292  at org springframework test context junit4 SpringJUnit4ClassRunner runChild SpringJUnit4ClassRunner java 233  at org springframework test context junit4 SpringJUnit4ClassRunner runChild SpringJUnit4ClassRunner java 87  at org junit runners ParentRunner 3 run ParentRunner java 238  at org junit runners ParentRunner 1 schedule ParentRunner java 63  at org junit runners ParentRunner runChildren ParentRunner java 236  at org junit runners ParentRunner access 000 ParentRunner java 53  at org junit runners ParentRunner 2 evaluate ParentRunner java 229  at org springframework test context junit4 statements RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks evaluate RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks java 61  at org springframework test context junit4 statements RunAfterTestClassCallbacks evaluate RunAfterTestClassCallbacks java 71  at org junit runners ParentRunner run ParentRunner java 309  at org springframework test context junit4 SpringJUnit4ClassRunner run SpringJUnit4ClassRunner java 176  at org eclipse jdt internal junit4 runner JUnit4TestReference run JUnit4TestReference java 50  at org eclipse jdt internal junit runner TestExecution run TestExecution java 38  at org eclipse jdt internal junit runner RemoteTestRunner runTests RemoteTestRunner java 467  at org eclipse jdt internal junit runner RemoteTestRunner runTests RemoteTestRunner java 683  at org eclipse jdt internal junit runner RemoteTestRunner run RemoteTestRunner java 390  at org eclipse jdt internal junit runner RemoteTestRunner main RemoteTestRunner java 197  Caused by  org springframework beans factory BeanDefinitionStoreException  IOException parsing XML document from class path resource  applicationContext xml   nested exception is java io FileNotFoundException  class path resource  applicationContext xml  cannot be opened because it does not exist at org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions XmlBeanDefinitionReader java 343  at org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions XmlBeanDefinitionReader java 303  at org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 180  at org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 216  at org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 187  at org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 251  at org springframework test context support AbstractGenericContextLoader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractGenericContextLoader java 253  at org springframework test context support AbstractGenericContextLoader loadContext AbstractGenericContextLoader java 122  at org springframework test context support AbstractGenericContextLoader loadContext AbstractGenericContextLoader java 60  at org springframework test context support AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader delegateLoading AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader java 100  at org springframework test context support AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader loadContext AbstractDelegatingSmartContextLoader java 250  at org springframework test context CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate loadContextInternal CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate java 64  at org springframework test context CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate loadContext CacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate java 91      25 more Caused by  java io FileNotFoundException  class path resource  applicationContext xml  cannot be opened because it does not exist at org springframework core io ClassPathResource getInputStream ClassPathResource java 172  at org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions XmlBeanDefinitionReader java 329      37 more

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For me  I was missing  ActiveProfile at my test class   ActiveProfiles  sandbox   class MyTestClass

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Try with the relative path using       ContextConfiguration locations      classpath  spring applicationContext xml    classpath  spring applicationContext-jpa xml    classpath  spring applicationContext-security xml       If not look if your xml are really on resources spring    Finally try just on without location    ContextConfiguration   classpath  spring applicationContext xml      The other error that you  re showing is because you have this tag duplicated on applicationContext xml and applicationContext-security xml   Duplicate  lt global-method-security gt

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I faced the same error and realized that pom xml had java 1 7 and STS compiler pointed to Java 1 8  Upon changing compiler to 1 7 and rebuild fixed the issue   PS  This answer is not related to actual question posted but applies to similar error for app Context not loading

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try as below   ContextConfiguration  locations    classpath   spring applicationContext  xml     this will load all 3 of your application context xml file

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The problem is insufficient memory to load context   Try to set VM options   -da -Xmx2048m -Xms1024m -XX MaxPermSize 2048m

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Add in in pom xml give the following plugin   lt plugin gt     lt artifactId gt maven-surefire-plugin lt  artifactId gt     lt version gt 2 10 lt  version gt     lt configuration gt       lt useFile gt false lt  useFile gt     lt  configuration gt   lt  plugin gt

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Give the below   ContextConfiguration locations      classpath   spring test-context xml      And in pom xml give the following plugin    lt plugin gt      lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt      lt artifactId gt maven-surefire-plugin lt  artifactId gt      lt version gt 2 20 1 lt  version gt   lt configuration gt       lt additionalClasspathElements gt          lt additionalClasspathElement gt   basedir  src test resources lt  additionalClasspathElement gt       lt  additionalClasspathElements gt   lt  configuration gt

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I added the spring folder to the build path and  after clean amp build  it worked

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If you are using intellij  then try restarting intellij cache   File-  Invalidate cache restart clean and build project   See if it works  it worked for me

[spring] Failed to load ApplicationContext from Unit Test: FileNotFound

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