Thanks Dmitriy. I'll try that again. As for slow test startup, I try to design so that much of the "interesting" logic can be tested in vanilla unit tests (not extending SeamTest) with dependencies filled via JMock. Because you're right, waiting 15 seconds for the test to start up slows things down considerably at certain phases of development. Anyway, I've found that if the tricky business logic is testable outside of SeamTest, all that remains ends up being rather straightforward. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4069251#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...