Need to be able to catch Spring startup exception in unit test

I've got a situation where we want to inspect Spring MVC code on startup and throw an exception (thus causing the ApplicationContext to to fail) when certain conditions aren't met.

Is there a way to instrument a JUnit test to catch Spring startup (specifically, Spring Boot in most cases) exceptions so that they don't cause a test failure? I basically want to fail the test if the exception doesn't happen.