Unable to find a @SpringBootConfiguration when doing a JpaTest

Indeed, Spring Boot does set itself up for the most part. You can probably already get rid of a lot of the code you posted, especially in Application.

I wish you had included the package names of all your classes, or at least the ones for Application and JpaTest. The thing about @DataJpaTest and a few other annotations is that they look for a @SpringBootConfiguration annotation in the current package, and if they cannot find it there, they traverse the package hierarchy until they find it.

For example, if the fully qualified name for your test class was com.example.test.JpaTest and the one for your application was com.example.Application, then your test class would be able to find the @SpringBootApplication (and therein, the @SpringBootConfiguration).

If the application resided in a different branch of the package hierarchy, however, like com.example.application.Application, it would not find it.

Example

Consider the following Maven project:

my-test-project
  +--pom.xml
  +--src
    +--main
      +--com
        +--example
          +--Application.java
    +--test
      +--com
        +--example
          +--test
            +--JpaTest.java

And then the following content in Application.java:

package com.example;

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

Followed by the contents of JpaTest.java:

package com.example.test;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@DataJpaTest
public class JpaTest {

    @Test
    public void testDummy() {
    }
}

Everything should be working. If you create a new folder inside src/main/com/example called app, and then put your Application.java inside it (and update the package declaration inside the file), running the test will give you the following error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to find a @SpringBootConfiguration, you need to use @ContextConfiguration or @SpringBootTest(classes=...) with your test

Configuration is attached to the application class, so the following will set up everything correctly:

@SpringBootTest(classes = Application.class)

Example from the JHipster project here.

It is worth to check if you have refactored package name of your main class annotated with @SpringBootApplication. In that case the testcase should be in an appropriate package otherwise it will be looking for it in the older package . this was the case for me.

In addition to what Thomas Kåsene said, you can also add

@SpringBootTest(classes=com.package.path.class)

to the test annotation to specify where it should look for the other class if you didn't want to refactor your file hierarchy. This is what the error message hints at by saying:

Unable to find a @SpringBootConfiguration, you need to use 
@ContextConfiguration or @SpringBootTest(classes=...) ...

Unable to find a @SpringBootConfiguration when doing a JpaTest

Example

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