Standard Annotation Support

The following annotations are supported with standard semantics for all configurations of the Spring TestContext Framework. Note that these annotations are not specific to tests and can be used anywhere in the Spring Framework.

@Autowired
@Qualifier
@Value
@Resource (jakarta.annotation) if JSR-250 is present
@ManagedBean (jakarta.annotation) if JSR-250 is present
@Inject (jakarta.inject) if JSR-330 is present
@Named (jakarta.inject) if JSR-330 is present
@PersistenceContext (jakarta.persistence) if JPA is present
@PersistenceUnit (jakarta.persistence) if JPA is present
@Transactional (org.springframework.transaction.annotation) with limited attribute support

JSR-250 Lifecycle Annotations

In the Spring TestContext Framework, you can use @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy with standard semantics on any application components configured in the ApplicationContext. However, these lifecycle annotations have limited usage within an actual test class.

If a method within a test class is annotated with @PostConstruct, that method runs before any before methods of the underlying test framework (for example, methods annotated with JUnit Jupiter’s @BeforeEach), and that applies for every test method in the test class. On the other hand, if a method within a test class is annotated with @PreDestroy, that method never runs. Therefore, within a test class, we recommend that you use test lifecycle callbacks from the underlying test framework instead of @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy.