The rest of the beans were configured in xml files. I created this bean dynamically in the test so that I didn't have to pollute the xml config.
// Dynamically create a DummyServiceToMakeCodeTransactional bean and register with spring DefaultListableBeanFactory autowireCapableBeanFactory = (DefaultListableBeanFactory) getApplicationContext().getAutowireCapableBeanFactory(); AbstractBeanDefinition beanDefinition = BeanDefinitionBuilder.rootBeanDefinition( DummyServiceToMakeCodeTransactional.class.getName()).getBeanDefinition(); autowireCapableBeanFactory.registerBeanDefinition("DummyService", beanDefinition); DummyServiceToMakeCodeTransactional bean = (DummyServiceToMakeCodeTransactional) getApplicationContext().getBean("DummyService");