Neither GenericXmlContextLoader nor AnnotationConfigContextLoader was able to detect defaults for context configuration

Problem: Running JUnit 4 with Spring 3 and getting below exception

 

Neither GenericXmlContextLoader nor AnnotationConfigContextLoader was able to detect defaults for context configuration

 

Solution: Add locations attribute to the contextConfiguration.

@ContextConfiguration(locations = {“classpath:applicationContext.xml”}) for the JUnit to refer to the beans Definition.