For testing a beanvalidation implementation you need to use an arquillian adapter. For our case (Apache BVAL) this is OpenWebBeans-2.0.4. Which uses Arquillian-1.1.13.Final. As does the latest Weld afaik.

Those adapters do not work well with older Arquillian versions.
Otoh any Arquillian test should work on any newer Arquillian version. Except that this very test uses some Arquillian internals which were never meant to be used from within a test.