Spring Test Transactional annotation not working

I have problems getting tests to run with Transaction support.

Here is a way to reproduce:

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
import org.springframework.test.annotation.Rollback;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
import org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAspectSupport;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {TransactionsTest.class}, loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
//@ContextConfiguration("classpath:applicationContext-hibernate-test.xml")
@Transactional
@Rollback
@ImportResource("classpath:applicationContext-hibernate-test.xml")
public class TransactionsTest {

  @Autowired
  Runnable testRunnable;

  @Transactional
  @Test
  public void testTransactionEnabled() {
    assert TransactionAspectSupport.currentTransactionStatus() != null;
  }

  @Test
  public void testTransactionEnabledBean() {
    testRunnable.run();
  }

  @Bean
  public Runnable testRunnable() {
    return new MyTransactional();
  }

  private static class MyTransactional implements Runnable {

    @Transactional
    @Override
    public void run() {
        assert TransactionAspectSupport.currentTransactionStatus() != null;
    }
  }
}

Will yield:

• testTransactionEnabled fails (EDIT: with "org.springframework.transaction.NoTransactionException: No transaction aspect-managed TransactionStatus in scope")
• testTransactionEnabledBean passes

This is despite Springs documentation clearly stating that tests annotated with @Transactional will cause tests to run within transactions:

http://ift.tt/1K2iODH

My applicationContext-hibernate-test.xml:

<beans...>
  <jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource" type="H2" />
  <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean" >...
  </bean>

  <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
    <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
    <property name="jpaDialect">
        <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect"/>
    </property>
  </bean>

  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

</beans>

Related question: http://ift.tt/1RxRkvW