Spring Boot properties in 'application.yml' not loading from JUnit Test

Question

What am I doing wrong? I\'m using this little standalone App which runs and finds my src/main/resources/config/application.yml. The same configuration doesn\'t work

Answer 1

Alternative in February 2017:

@SpringBootTest
@ContextConfiguration(classes = { TestApplication.class })
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
public class SomeTestClass {
   ...
}

the lean variant (withouth @SpringBootTest):

@ContextConfiguration(classes = { TestApplication.class },
                 initializers = { ConfigFileApplicationContextInitializer.class })
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
public class SomeTestClass {