If an application defines a @Scheduled(fixedRateString = "PT6H") tasks, then this task will be running on any @SpringBootTest junit test that does not explicit mock the bean containing the scheduled task.

@Service public class SchedulerService { @Scheduled(fixedRateString = "PT6H") public void runOnStartup() { } } 

This gets tedious if there are many more @Scheduled tasks in the application that launch on startup by usage of fixedRate or fixedRateString.

It would be great if there could be a possibility to completely deactivate the execution of @Scheduled tasks in junit.

Just like it is possible to deactivate any @Cacheable annotation by simply setting spring.cache.type=none dring junit tests.

Something like: spring.enable.scheduling=false (default: true)