diff --git a/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/testutil/ClassPathExclusions.java b/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/testutil/ClassPathExclusions.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2012-2016 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.boot.testutil;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation used in combination with {@link FilteredClassPathRunner} to exclude entries
+ * from the classpath.
+ *
+ * @author Andy Wilkinson
+ */
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
+public @interface ClassPathExclusions {
+
+	/**
+	 * One or more Ant-style patterns that identify entries to be excluded from the class
+	 * path. Matching is performed against an entry's {@link File#getName() file name}.
+	 * For example, to exclude Hibernate Validator from the classpath,
+	 * {@code "hibernate-validator-*.jar"} can be used.
+	 *
+	 * @return the exclusion patterns
+	 */
+	String[] value();
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/testutil/FilteredClassPathRunner.java b/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/testutil/FilteredClassPathRunner.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2012-2016 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.boot.testutil;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.jar.Attributes;
+import java.util.jar.JarFile;
+
+import org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod;
+import org.junit.runners.model.InitializationError;
+import org.junit.runners.model.TestClass;
+
+import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils;
+import org.springframework.util.AntPathMatcher;
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
+
+/**
+ * A custom {@link BlockJUnit4ClassRunner} that runs tests using a filtered class path.
+ * Entries are excluded from the class path using {@link ClassPathExclusions} on the test
+ * class. A class loader is created with the customized class path and is used both to
+ * load the test class and as the thread context class loader while the test is being run.
+ *
+ * @author Andy Wilkinson
+ */
+public class FilteredClassPathRunner extends BlockJUnit4ClassRunner {
+
+	public FilteredClassPathRunner(Class<?> klass) throws InitializationError {
+		super(klass);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected TestClass createTestClass(Class<?> testClass) {
+		try {
+			final ClassLoader classLoader = createTestClassLoader(testClass);
+			return new TestClass(classLoader.loadClass(testClass.getName())) {
+
+				@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+				@Override
+				public List<FrameworkMethod> getAnnotatedMethods(
+						Class<? extends Annotation> annotationClass) {
+					List<FrameworkMethod> methods = new ArrayList<FrameworkMethod>();
+					try {
+						for (FrameworkMethod frameworkMethod : super.getAnnotatedMethods(
+								(Class<? extends Annotation>) classLoader
+										.loadClass(annotationClass.getName()))) {
+							methods.add(new CustomTcclFrameworkMethod(classLoader,
+									frameworkMethod.getMethod()));
+						}
+						return methods;
+					}
+					catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
+						throw new RuntimeException(ex);
+					}
+				}
+
+			};
+		}
+		catch (Exception ex) {
+			throw new IllegalStateException(ex);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private URLClassLoader createTestClassLoader(Class<?> testClass) throws Exception {
+		URLClassLoader classLoader = (URLClassLoader) this.getClass().getClassLoader();
+		return new URLClassLoader(filterUrls(extractUrls(classLoader), testClass),
+				classLoader.getParent());
+	}
+
+	private URL[] extractUrls(URLClassLoader classLoader) throws Exception {
+		List<URL> extractedUrls = new ArrayList<URL>();
+		for (URL url : classLoader.getURLs()) {
+			if (isSurefireBooterJar(url)) {
+				extractedUrls.addAll(extractUrlsFromManifestClassPath(url));
+			}
+			else {
+				extractedUrls.add(url);
+			}
+		}
+		return extractedUrls.toArray(new URL[extractedUrls.size()]);
+	}
+
+	private boolean isSurefireBooterJar(URL url) {
+		return url.getPath().contains("surefirebooter");
+	}
+
+	private List<URL> extractUrlsFromManifestClassPath(URL booterJar) throws Exception {
+		List<URL> urls = new ArrayList<URL>();
+		for (String entry : getClassPath(booterJar)) {
+			urls.add(new URL(entry));
+		}
+		return urls;
+	}
+
+	private String[] getClassPath(URL booterJar) throws Exception {
+		JarFile jarFile = new JarFile(new File(booterJar.toURI()));
+		try {
+			return StringUtils.delimitedListToStringArray(jarFile.getManifest()
+					.getMainAttributes().getValue(Attributes.Name.CLASS_PATH), " ");
+		}
+		finally {
+			jarFile.close();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private URL[] filterUrls(URL[] urls, Class<?> testClass) throws Exception {
+		ClassPathEntryFilter filter = new ClassPathEntryFilter(testClass);
+		List<URL> filteredUrls = new ArrayList<URL>();
+		for (URL url : urls) {
+			if (!filter.isExcluded(url)) {
+				filteredUrls.add(url);
+			}
+		}
+		return filteredUrls.toArray(new URL[filteredUrls.size()]);
+	}
+
+	private static final class ClassPathEntryFilter {
+
+		private final List<String> exclusions;
+
+		private final AntPathMatcher matcher = new AntPathMatcher();
+
+		private ClassPathEntryFilter(Class<?> testClass) throws Exception {
+			ClassPathExclusions exclusions = AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation(testClass,
+					ClassPathExclusions.class);
+			this.exclusions = exclusions == null ? Collections.<String>emptyList()
+					: Arrays.asList(exclusions.value());
+		}
+
+		private boolean isExcluded(URL url) throws Exception {
+			if (!"file".equals(url.getProtocol())) {
+				return false;
+			}
+			String name = new File(url.toURI()).getName();
+			for (String exclusion : this.exclusions) {
+				if (this.matcher.match(exclusion, name)) {
+					return true;
+				}
+			}
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static final class CustomTcclFrameworkMethod extends FrameworkMethod {
+
+		private final ClassLoader customTccl;
+
+		private CustomTcclFrameworkMethod(ClassLoader customTccl, Method method) {
+			super(method);
+			this.customTccl = customTccl;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public Object invokeExplosively(Object target, Object... params)
+				throws Throwable {
+			ClassLoader originalTccl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
+			Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(this.customTccl);
+			try {
+				return super.invokeExplosively(target, params);
+			}
+			finally {
+				Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(originalTccl);
+			}
+		}
+
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/testutil/FilteredClassPathRunnerTests.java b/spring-boot/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/testutil/FilteredClassPathRunnerTests.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2012-2016 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.boot.testutil;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for {@link FilteredClassPathRunner}
+ *
+ * @author Andy Wilkinson
+ */
+@RunWith(FilteredClassPathRunner.class)
+@ClassPathExclusions("hibernate-validator-*.jar")
+public class FilteredClassPathRunnerTests {
+
+	@Test
+	public void entriesAreFilteredFromTestClassClassLoader() {
+		assertThat(getClass().getClassLoader()
+				.getResource("META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider"))
+						.isNull();
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void entriesAreFilteredFromThreadContextClassLoader() {
+		assertThat(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
+				.getResource("META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider"))
+						.isNull();
+	}
+
+}