[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1473?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s... ] Bartosz Majsak commented on ARQ-1473: ------------------------------------- By looking at events invocation calls this is what happens with the current implementation (E) Before (I) TestContextHandler.createSuiteContext (I) TestContextHandler.createClassContext (E) TestClass (I) TestContextHandler.createTestContext (I) ContainerEventController.createBeforeContext (O) TransactionHandler.startTransactionBeforeTest ----------------------------> Starting transactiontestInject1 (E) BeforeTransactionStarted (E) OpenEJBRuntimeException (E) OpenEJBRuntimeException (E) After (I) TestContextHandler.createSuiteContext (I) TestContextHandler.createClassContext (E) TestClass (I) TestContextHandler.createTestContext (I) ContainerEventController.createAfterContext (O) ClientBeforeAfterLifecycleEventExecuter.on (E) NullPointerException (E) NullPointerException And end transaction is never called. Here's the [root cause of NPE|https://gist.github.com/bartoszmajsak/7205691] (most likely constraints on the data). After changing precedence of the events (to have transactions start early enough) tests are green again. Side note: don't really like the idea of testing for EJBException but at least that shows us the problem :) Fix on the way. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira