diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bfc2d27e1e..1043680788 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -728,6 +728,7 @@
                 <module>spring-static-resources</module>
                 <module>spring-swagger-codegen</module>
 
+                <module>spring-threads</module>
                 <module>spring-thymeleaf</module>
                 <module>spring-thymeleaf-2</module>
 
diff --git a/spring-threads/pom.xml b/spring-threads/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4513c627b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-threads/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>spring-threads</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>spring-threads</name>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent-spring-5</artifactId>
+        <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../parent-spring-5</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/spring-threads/src/test/java/com/baeldung/threading/ThreadPoolTaskExecutorUnitTest.java b/spring-threads/src/test/java/com/baeldung/threading/ThreadPoolTaskExecutorUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d927ebe69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-threads/src/test/java/com/baeldung/threading/ThreadPoolTaskExecutorUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+package com.baeldung.threading;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskExecutor;
+
+public class ThreadPoolTaskExecutorUnitTest {
+
+    void startThreads(ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor, CountDownLatch countDownLatch, int numThreads) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < numThreads; i++) {
+            taskExecutor.execute(() -> {
+                try {
+                    Thread.sleep(100L * ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextLong(1, 10));
+                    countDownLatch.countDown();
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+                }
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingDefaults_thenSingleThread() {
+        ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();
+        taskExecutor.afterPropertiesSet();
+
+        CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(10);
+        this.startThreads(taskExecutor, countDownLatch, 10);
+
+        while (countDownLatch.getCount() > 0) {
+            Assert.assertEquals(1, taskExecutor.getPoolSize());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCorePoolSizeFive_thenFiveThreads() {
+        ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();
+        taskExecutor.setCorePoolSize(5);
+        taskExecutor.afterPropertiesSet();
+
+        CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(10);
+        this.startThreads(taskExecutor, countDownLatch, 10);
+
+        while (countDownLatch.getCount() > 0) {
+            Assert.assertEquals(5, taskExecutor.getPoolSize());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCorePoolSizeFiveAndMaxPoolSizeTen_thenFiveThreads() {
+        ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();
+        taskExecutor.setCorePoolSize(5);
+        taskExecutor.setMaxPoolSize(10);
+        taskExecutor.afterPropertiesSet();
+
+        CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(10);
+        this.startThreads(taskExecutor, countDownLatch, 10);
+
+        while (countDownLatch.getCount() > 0) {
+            Assert.assertEquals(5, taskExecutor.getPoolSize());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCorePoolSizeFiveAndMaxPoolSizeTenAndQueueCapacityZero_thenTenThreads() {
+        ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();
+        taskExecutor.setCorePoolSize(5);
+        taskExecutor.setMaxPoolSize(10);
+        taskExecutor.setQueueCapacity(0);
+        taskExecutor.afterPropertiesSet();
+
+        CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(10);
+        this.startThreads(taskExecutor, countDownLatch, 10);
+
+        while (countDownLatch.getCount() > 0) {
+            Assert.assertEquals(10, taskExecutor.getPoolSize());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenCorePoolSizeFiveAndMaxPoolSizeTenAndQueueCapacityTen_thenTenThreads() {
+        ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();
+        taskExecutor.setCorePoolSize(5);
+        taskExecutor.setMaxPoolSize(10);
+        taskExecutor.setQueueCapacity(10);
+        taskExecutor.afterPropertiesSet();
+
+        CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(20);
+        this.startThreads(taskExecutor, countDownLatch, 20);
+
+        while (countDownLatch.getCount() > 0) {
+            Assert.assertEquals(10, taskExecutor.getPoolSize());
+        }
+    }
+}