The schema "Arquillian test execution and SPI overview" in arquillian docs:
http://docs.jboss.org/arquillian/reference/latest/en-US/html_single/#extend

imply that deployment is done after @BeforeClass, but in fact @Deployment precedes @BeforeClass

In my opinion, @BeforeClass preceding @Deployment is intuitive makes more overall sense.
However, if from some reason this is not to be changed, at least the documentation should be clarified
to avoid confusion.