diff --git a/spring-core-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/patterns/factory/AnnotationConfigApplicationContextTest.java b/spring-core-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/patterns/factory/AnnotationConfigApplicationContextTest.java
index 57a8ece197..074818a639 100644
--- a/spring-core-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/patterns/factory/AnnotationConfigApplicationContextTest.java
+++ b/spring-core-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/patterns/factory/AnnotationConfigApplicationContextTest.java
@@ -1,36 +1,61 @@
-package com.baeldung.spring.patterns.factory;
-
-import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
-import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
-
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;
-
-public class AnnotationConfigApplicationContextTest {
-
-    @Test
-    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
-    public void whenGetSimpleBean_ThenReturnConstructedBean() {
-        
-        ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(ApplicationConfig.class);
-        
-        Foo foo = context.getBean(Foo.class);
-        
-        assertNotNull(foo);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
-    public void whenGetPrototypeBean_ThenReturnConstructedBean() {
-        
-        String expectedName = "Some name";
-        ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(ApplicationConfig.class);
-        
-        Bar bar = context.getBean(Bar.class, expectedName);
-        
-        assertNotNull(bar);
-        assertThat(bar.getName(), is(expectedName));
-    }
-}
+package com.baeldung.spring.patterns.factory;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+public class AnnotationConfigApplicationContextTest {
+
+    @Test
+    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
+    public void whenGetSimpleBean_thenReturnConstructedBean() {
+        
+        ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(ApplicationConfig.class);
+        
+        Foo foo = context.getBean(Foo.class);
+        
+        assertNotNull(foo);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
+    public void whenGetPrototypeBean_thenReturnConstructedBean() {
+        
+        String expectedName = "Some name";
+        ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(ApplicationConfig.class);
+        
+        Bar bar = context.getBean(Bar.class, expectedName);
+        
+        assertNotNull(bar);
+        assertThat(bar.getName(), is(expectedName));
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
+    public void givenXmlConfiguration_whenGetSimpleBean_thenReturnConstructedBean() {
+        
+        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("patterns-context.xml");
+        
+        Foo foo = context.getBean(Foo.class);
+        
+        assertNotNull(foo);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
+    public void givenXmlConfiguration_whenGetPrototypeBean_thenReturnConstructedBean() {
+        
+        String expectedName = "Some name";
+        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("patterns-context.xml");
+        
+        Bar bar = context.getBean(Bar.class, expectedName);
+        
+        assertNotNull(bar);
+        assertThat(bar.getName(), is(expectedName));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-core-3/src/test/resources/patterns-context.xml b/spring-core-3/src/test/resources/patterns-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..106cde79a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core-3/src/test/resources/patterns-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
+
+	<bean id="foo" class="com.baeldung.spring.patterns.factory.Foo" />
+	<bean id="bar" scope="prototype" class="com.baeldung.spring.patterns.factory.Bar" />
+</beans>
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