diff --git a/engine/storage/snapshot/pom.xml b/engine/storage/snapshot/pom.xml
index 723c21081ad..211cdac574e 100644
--- a/engine/storage/snapshot/pom.xml
+++ b/engine/storage/snapshot/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
-    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
-    <testSourceDirectory>test</testSourceDirectory>
+    <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/test</testSourceDirectory>
+    <testResources>
+      <testResource>
+        <directory>${project.basedir}/test/resource</directory>
+      </testResource>
+    </testResources>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/engine/storage/snapshot/test/resource/SnapshotManagerTestContext.xml b/engine/storage/snapshot/test/resource/SnapshotManagerTestContext.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d99c2e2dbac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/storage/snapshot/test/resource/SnapshotManagerTestContext.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor 
+  license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional 
+  information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to 
+  you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use 
+  this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of 
+  the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required 
+  by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the 
+  License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS 
+  OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific 
+  language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+  xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+
+  <context:annotation-config />
+
+  <!-- @DB support -->
+  <aop:config proxy-target-class="true">
+    <aop:aspect id="dbContextBuilder" ref="transactionContextBuilder">
+      <aop:pointcut id="captureAnyMethod" expression="execution(* *(..))" />
+
+      <aop:around pointcut-ref="captureAnyMethod" method="AroundAnyMethod" />
+    </aop:aspect>
+
+  </aop:config>
+
+  <bean id="transactionContextBuilder" class="com.cloud.utils.db.TransactionContextBuilder" />
+  <bean id="componentContext" class="com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentContext"/>
+  <bean id="TestConfiguration"
+    class="com.cloud.network.security.SecurityGroupManagerTestConfiguration" />
+  <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor">
+    <property name="requiredParameterValue" value="false" />
+  </bean>
+</beans>
diff --git a/engine/storage/snapshot/test/src/SnapshotDataFactoryTest.java b/engine/storage/snapshot/test/src/SnapshotDataFactoryTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e722ab55c70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/engine/storage/snapshot/test/src/SnapshotDataFactoryTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package src;
+
+import javax.inject.Inject;
+
+import org.apache.cloudstack.engine.subsystem.api.storage.SnapshotDataFactory;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+import com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentContext;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+//@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+//@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:/SnapshotManagerTestContext.xml")
+public class SnapshotDataFactoryTest extends TestCase {
+    //@Inject SnapshotDataFactory snapshotFactory;
+    
+    @Before
+    public void setup() throws Exception {
+        //ComponentContext.initComponentsLifeCycle();
+        
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testGestSnapshot() {
+        //snapshotFactory.getSnapshot(snapshotId);
+    }
+    
+}