@DataJpaTest throws "Error creating bean with name 'jpaAuditingHandler'" occasionally

Question

I have a bunch of @DataJpaTests as well a lot of @SpringBootTests and @WebMvcTests.

I also have @EnableJpaAuditing enabled.

When I run @DataJpaTests independently it's all fine, these tests run and pass successfully. But if I run all the tests at once, some @DataJpaTest throw occasionally the following:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jpaAuditingHandler': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'jpaMappingContext' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is 
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:Error creating bean with name 'jpaMappingContext': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
org.springframework.web.context.support.GenericWebApplicationContext@15405bd6 has been closed already

The problem is that I don't see a pattern here. Sometimes I get this exception, sometimes not. Some @DataJpaTest throw this exception, some not... So I'm not sure how to prevent it.

Answer 1

This answer helped me to resolve my problem.

I created an abstract class:

@DataJpaTest
@AutoConfigureTestDatabase(replace = AutoConfigureTestDatabase.Replace.NONE)
@DirtiesContext(classMode = DirtiesContext.ClassMode.BEFORE_CLASS)
public abstract class BaseDataJpaTest {}

And inherit all my @DataJpaTest from this class. This way I get a fresh context before each test.