From 19c2506476a46aea70ea151472bb21bcfc801224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Brannen <104798+sbrannen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:23:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Do not restart contexts if pausing is disabled

If the PauseMode is set to NEVER, we never pause contexts and therefore
do not need to restart them.

See gh-36117
---
 .../test/context/cache/DefaultContextCache.java  | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/cache/DefaultContextCache.java b/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/cache/DefaultContextCache.java
index 8956273342d..529af02e8c9 100644
--- a/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/cache/DefaultContextCache.java
+++ b/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/cache/DefaultContextCache.java
@@ -172,13 +172,15 @@ public class DefaultContextCache implements ContextCache {
 	}
 
 	private void restartContextIfNecessary(ApplicationContext context) {
-		// Recurse up the context hierarchy first.
-		ApplicationContext parent = context.getParent();
-		if (parent != null) {
-			restartContextIfNecessary(parent);
-		}
-		if (context instanceof ConfigurableApplicationContext cac && !cac.isRunning()) {
-			cac.restart();
+		if (this.pauseMode != PauseMode.NEVER) {
+			// Recurse up the context hierarchy first.
+			ApplicationContext parent = context.getParent();
+			if (parent != null) {
+				restartContextIfNecessary(parent);
+			}
+			if (context instanceof ConfigurableApplicationContext cac && !cac.isRunning()) {
+				cac.restart();
+			}
 		}
 	}