How to force a fresh version of the Spring context BEFORE the test executes

Question

I use the SpringJUnit4ClassRunner for writing integration tests. I also use @DirtiesContext for tests that leave the context in an broken state behind

Answer 1

There are several options:

1. You can create an individual spring context for this test by loading another configuration into it. That way, your test will be completely independent of every other test.
2. You can create a stripped down configuration for this test. That would achieve the same but be faster.
3. Create a test suite which runs this test first.