diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable-admin/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable-admin/pom.xml
index 51ffb12addb5..6f6608a198c4 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable-admin/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable-admin/pom.xml
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@
       <artifactId>grpc-testing</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+      <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+	  <version>2.19.1</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <profile>
@@ -125,6 +130,13 @@
           <perCoreThreadCount>true</perCoreThreadCount>
           <threadCount>2</threadCount>
         </configuration>
+		<dependencies>
+ 		  <dependency>
+ 			<groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+ 			<artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+			<version>2.19.1</version>
+ 		  </dependency>
+ 		</dependencies>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index aab83ade66ef..8263e0e5a58b 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@
       <artifactId>grpc-testing</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+      <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+      <version>2.19.1</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <profile>
@@ -128,6 +133,13 @@
           <perCoreThreadCount>true</perCoreThreadCount>
           <threadCount>2</threadCount>
         </configuration>
+	<dependencies>
+	  <dependency>
+	    <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+	    <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+	    <version>2.19.1</version>
+	  </dependency>
+	</dependencies>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-logging/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-logging/pom.xml
index f721bc0681c9..bb027fa5ab8e 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-logging/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-logging/pom.xml
@@ -88,5 +88,10 @@
       <classifier>testlib</classifier>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+      <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+      <version>2.19.1</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/google-cloud-util/pom.xml b/google-cloud-util/pom.xml
index 2c3f4502b734..b3f35a91276b 100644
--- a/google-cloud-util/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-util/pom.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@
   <modules>
     <module>google-cloud-compat-checker</module>
   </modules>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+      <version>2.17</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+	<dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+      <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+      <version>2.17</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>