dIon Gillard Apply MAVEN-309. Reorganise classpaths so that it's test, build, dependencies and then JUnit You can now specify whether the source (java) or classes (class) files are searched when using the test plugin via the property: maven.test.search.classdir. It defaults to use (java) to preserve backwards compatibilty. Using (class) allows you to work with alternative languages that compile to bytecode like Check if unitTest tag is present in pom before copy resources. Add jvmarg support for junit. Add properties documentation. Fixed classpath for test:ui, test:single and test:match goals. Added xmlapis and xerces to project dependencies as per MAVEN-106 bug report The test plugin now works again if the project has not tests defined. The introduction of the <test:test-resources> goal had broken this feature.