diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/XmlBeanApplication.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/XmlBeanApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ddf1efd396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/XmlBeanApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+@ImportResource({"classpath*:application-context.xml"})
+public class XmlBeanApplication {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(XmlBeanApplication.class, args);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/domain/Employee.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/domain/Employee.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f81277f027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/domain/Employee.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.domain;
+
+public class Employee {
+
+    private String name;
+    private String role;
+
+    public Employee() {
+
+    }
+
+    public Employee(String name, String role) {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.role = role;
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return this.name;
+    }
+
+    public String getRole() {
+        return this.role;
+    }
+
+    public void setName(String name) {
+        this.name = name;
+    }
+
+    public void setRole(String role) {
+        this.role = role;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeService.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..867e9b8c9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service;
+
+import com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.domain.Employee;
+
+public interface EmployeeService {
+
+    Employee getEmployee();
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeServiceImpl.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeServiceImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b541c62dcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeServiceImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service;
+
+import com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.domain.Employee;
+
+public class EmployeeServiceImpl implements EmployeeService {
+
+    @Override
+    public Employee getEmployee() {
+        return new Employee("Baeldung", "Admin");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeServiceTestImpl.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeServiceTestImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cebaa399b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/service/EmployeeServiceTestImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service;
+
+import com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.domain.Employee;
+
+public class EmployeeServiceTestImpl implements EmployeeService {
+
+    @Override
+    public Employee getEmployee() {
+        return new Employee("Baeldung-Test", "Admin");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/resources/application-context.xml b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/resources/application-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc0e0fef25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/resources/application-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?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.xsd">
+	  
+    <bean id="employeeServiceImpl" class="com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service.EmployeeServiceImpl" />
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/application-context.xml b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/application-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc0e0fef25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/application-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?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.xsd">
+	  
+    <bean id="employeeServiceImpl" class="com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service.EmployeeServiceImpl" />
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/EmployeeServiceAppContextIntegrationTest.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/EmployeeServiceAppContextIntegrationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e9ee8f3951
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/EmployeeServiceAppContextIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext;
+
+import com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service.EmployeeService;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+
+@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
+@SpringBootTest(classes = XmlBeanApplication.class)
+//@ContextConfiguration(locations = "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/application-context.xml")
+public class EmployeeServiceAppContextIntegrationTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    private EmployeeService service;
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenContextLoads_thenServiceISNotNull() {
+        assertThat(service).isNotNull();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/EmployeeServiceTestContextIntegrationTest.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/EmployeeServiceTestContextIntegrationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0182d5dbb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/java/com/baeldung/xmlapplicationcontext/EmployeeServiceTestContextIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext;
+
+import com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service.EmployeeService;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
+@SpringBootTest(classes = XmlBeanApplication.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(locations = "/test-context.xml")
+public class EmployeeServiceTestContextIntegrationTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    @Qualifier("employeeServiceTestImpl")
+    private EmployeeService serviceTest;
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenTestContextLoads_thenServiceTestISNotNull() {
+        assertThat(serviceTest).isNotNull();
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/resources/test-context.xml b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/resources/test-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fbd6da32ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-testing/src/test/resources/test-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?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.xsd">
+
+    <bean id="employeeServiceTestImpl" class="com.baeldung.xmlapplicationcontext.service.EmployeeServiceTestImpl" />
+</beans>