diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index de025d3b4f..edebc30c09 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
         <module>selenium-junit-testng</module>
         <module>solr-fulltext-search</module>
         <module>spark-java</module>
+        <module>spring-5</module>
         <module>spring-akka</module>
         <module>spring-amqp</module>
         <module>spring-all</module>
diff --git a/spring-5/pom.xml b/spring-5/pom.xml
index ab05918ae4..eca36cc1d1 100644
--- a/spring-5/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-5/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>spring-5</name>
-    <description></description>
+    <description>spring 5 sample project about new features</description>
 
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
@@ -67,6 +67,17 @@
                 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                 <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
             </plugin>
+
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.19.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <parallel>methods</parallel>
+                    <useUnlimitedThreads>true</useUnlimitedThreads>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
diff --git a/spring-5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/Spring5JUnit4ConcurrentIntegrationTest.java b/spring-5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/Spring5JUnit4ConcurrentIntegrationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..938ee7fd43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/Spring5JUnit4ConcurrentIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * @author aiet
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = Spring5JUnit4ConcurrentIntegrationTest.SimpleConfiguration.class)
+public class Spring5JUnit4ConcurrentIntegrationTest implements ApplicationContextAware, InitializingBean {
+
+    @Configuration
+    public static class SimpleConfiguration {
+    }
+
+    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
+
+    private boolean beanInitialized = false;
+
+    @Override
+    public final void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
+        this.beanInitialized = true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final void setApplicationContext(final ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
+        this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public final void verifyApplicationContextSet() throws InterruptedException {
+        TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(2);
+        assertNotNull("The application context should have been set due to ApplicationContextAware semantics.", this.applicationContext);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public final void verifyBeanInitialized() throws InterruptedException {
+        TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(2);
+        assertTrue("This test bean should have been initialized due to InitializingBean semantics.", this.beanInitialized);
+    }
+
+}
+
+