diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/scheduling/config/ExecutorBeanDefinitionParserTests.java b/org.springframework.context/src/test/java/org/springframework/scheduling/config/ExecutorBeanDefinitionParserTests.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2009 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed 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 org.springframework.scheduling.config;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.DirectFieldAccessor;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Fisher
+ */
+public class ExecutorBeanDefinitionParserTests {
+
+	private ApplicationContext context;
+
+
+	@Before
+	public void setup() {
+		this.context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
+				"executorContext.xml", ExecutorBeanDefinitionParserTests.class);
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void defaultExecutor() {
+		Object executor = this.context.getBean("default");
+		assertEquals(1, this.getCorePoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(Integer.MAX_VALUE, this.getMaxPoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(Integer.MAX_VALUE, this.getQueueCapacity(executor));
+		assertEquals(60, this.getKeepAliveSeconds(executor));
+		assertEquals(false, this.getAllowCoreThreadTimeOut(executor));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void singleSize() {
+		Object executor = this.context.getBean("singleSize");
+		assertEquals(42, this.getCorePoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(42, this.getMaxPoolSize(executor));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void rangeWithBoundedQueue() {
+		Object executor = this.context.getBean("rangeWithBoundedQueue");
+		assertEquals(7, this.getCorePoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(42, this.getMaxPoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(11, this.getQueueCapacity(executor));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void rangeWithUnboundedQueue() {
+		Object executor = this.context.getBean("rangeWithUnboundedQueue");
+		assertEquals(9, this.getCorePoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(9, this.getMaxPoolSize(executor));
+		assertEquals(37, this.getKeepAliveSeconds(executor));
+		assertEquals(true, this.getAllowCoreThreadTimeOut(executor));
+		assertEquals(Integer.MAX_VALUE, this.getQueueCapacity(executor));
+	}
+
+
+	private int getCorePoolSize(Object executor) {
+		return (Integer) new DirectFieldAccessor(executor).getPropertyValue("corePoolSize");
+	}
+
+	private int getMaxPoolSize(Object executor) {
+		return (Integer) new DirectFieldAccessor(executor).getPropertyValue("maxPoolSize");
+	}
+
+	private int getQueueCapacity(Object executor) {
+		return (Integer) new DirectFieldAccessor(executor).getPropertyValue("queueCapacity");
+	}
+
+	private int getKeepAliveSeconds(Object executor) {
+		return (Integer) new DirectFieldAccessor(executor).getPropertyValue("keepAliveSeconds");
+	}
+
+	private boolean getAllowCoreThreadTimeOut(Object executor) {
+		return (Boolean) new DirectFieldAccessor(executor).getPropertyValue("allowCoreThreadTimeOut");
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/org.springframework.context/src/test/resources/org/springframework/scheduling/config/executorContext.xml b/org.springframework.context/src/test/resources/org/springframework/scheduling/config/executorContext.xml
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+++ b/org.springframework.context/src/test/resources/org/springframework/scheduling/config/executorContext.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	   xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+	   			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+				http://www.springframework.org/schema/task
+				http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task.xsd">
+
+	<task:executor id="default"/>
+
+	<task:executor id="singleSize" size="42"/>
+
+	<task:executor id="rangeWithBoundedQueue" size="7-42" queue-capacity="11"/>
+
+	<task:executor id="rangeWithUnboundedQueue" size="0-9" keep-alive="37"/>
+
+</beans>