I am experiencing some rather odd behavior where a specific child record direct delete is not working and forcing me to rewrite source code just to make arquillian happy which seems rather counter productive.

@Entity 

public class Parent {

@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "project")
@SortComparator(ChildRecordSequenceNumberComparator.class)
private SortedSet<ChildRecord> childRecord;
}

This is the simple entity.

@Test
@Transactional
public void testDeleteChildRecord() {
     childRecord.deleteChildRecord(parent.getChildRecord().first().getId());
     em.flush();
     ChilRecord verificationRecord = childRecord.findById(parent.getChildRecord().first().getId());
     assertTrue(verificationAnswer == null);

}

so when I execute this test, I fail every time, but when I run this on server it works like a champ. I tested this with both 1.1.9.Final and 1.1.6.Final. not until I do a cascading update with a removed child record in the source code does arquillian work as expected.

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian</groupId>
   <artifactId>arquillian-bom</artifactId>
   <version>${version.arquillian_core}/version>
   <scope>import</scope>
   <type>pom</type>
</dependency>