part of unit test setup:
AnnotationConfiguration cfg = new AnnotationConfiguration();
factory = cfg.configure("hibernate-test.cfg.xml").buildSessionFactory();

part of test:
   @Test
   public void testGetAllCarMarks() {
      populateCarMarks();
      CarMarkDAO dao = new CarMarkDAO();
      dao.setSessionFactory(factory);
      //without container let us start DAO manually
      try {
         dao.initDao();
      } catch (Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
         fail();
      }
      List<CarMark> carMarks = dao.getAllCarMarks();
      assertNotNull(carMarks);
      assertEquals(10, carMarks.size());
      for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
         dao.getAllCarMarks();
      }
      dao.getStatistics();
   }

hibernate.cfg.xml:
   <session-factory>
      <property name="connection.driver_class">org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</property>
      <property name="connection.url">jdbc:hsqldb:mem:openidserver_db</property>
      <property name="connection.username">sa</property>
      <property name="connection.password"></property>
      <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</property>
      <property name="cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider</property>
      <property name="cache.provider_configuration_file_resource_path">ehcache-test.xml</property>
      <property name="cache.use_query_cache">true</property>
      <property name="cache.use_second_level_cache">true</property>
      <!--
      <property name="cache.use_structured_entries">true</property>
      -->
      <property name="generate_statistics">true</property>
      <property name="show_sql">true</property>
      <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
      <mapping class="test.car.entities.CarMark" />

   </session-factory>

ehcache config:
<ehcache>
    <diskStore path="java.io.tmpdir"/>
    <defaultCache
      maxElementsInMemory="10000"
      eternal="false"
      overflowToDisk="false" />
</ehcache>

DAO code which is tested is based on Spring, I do not launch container but initDAO() with:
public class CarMarkDAO extends HibernateDaoSupport {

   @Override
   protected void initDao() throws Exception {
      super.initDao();
      getHibernateTemplate().setCacheQueries(true);
   }
   
   public List<CarMark> getAllCarMarks() {
      List<CarMark> carMarks = getHibernateTemplate().findByCriteria(DetachedCriteria.forClass(CarMark.class));
      //List<CarMark> carMarks = getHibernateTemplate().find("from CarMark");
      return carMarks;
   }
}