Failed to Load ApplicationContext during Spring unit test

I moved from spring 3.2.0 to 4.0.3 and had to update my javax.servlet dependency (in maven) from servlet 2.5 to servlet 3.0.1. The final dependency was

       <dependency>            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>            <version>3.0.1</version>       </dependency>

Then it worked

You'll need to annotate your test class with

@WebAppConfiguration

so that the test environment provides your WebApplicationContext with a mock ServletContext required by your MVC configuration.

Since a couple people mentioned Servlet version issues:

As of Spring 4.0 the set of mocks is now based on the Servlet 3.0 API.

You have two options:

1. use 3.2.x spring-test dependency

    <dependency>       <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>       <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>       <version>3.2.14.RELEASE</version>       <scope>test</scope>    </dependency>

2. upgrade to servlet 3.0

    <dependency>       <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>       <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>       <version>3.0.1</version>    </dependency>