diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 612c0f5feb4..ca147e8470a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11498. Bump the version of HTrace to 3.1.0-incubating (Masatake
     Iwasaki via Colin P. McCabe)
 
+    HADOOP-11442. hadoop-azure: Create test jar.
+    (Shashank Khandelwal via cnauroth)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11323. WritableComparator#compare keeps reference to byte array.
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/pom.xml
index 8011a809a6a..d39dd769e1a 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/pom.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,19 @@
           </configuration>
           
       </plugin>
+
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>test-jar</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+
     </plugins>