diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
index 9475681d6d9..0ff0a43284a 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
@@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ public class JobConf extends Configuration {
    * @return a jar file that contains the class, or null.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  static String findContainingJar(Class my_class) {
+  public static String findContainingJar(Class my_class) {
     ClassLoader loader = my_class.getClassLoader();
     String class_file = my_class.getName().replaceAll("\\.", "/") + ".class";
     try {
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
index 21858f38549..91b75dc8740 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <yarn.mr.jar>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</yarn.mr.jar>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
           <additionalClasspathElements>
             <!-- workaround for JobConf#setJarByClass -->
             <additionalClasspathElement>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-tests.jar</additionalClasspathElement>
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java
index e71e09d7e91..d4d9bb8c3a7 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalContainerLauncher;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ShuffleHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.MRConfig;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.MRJobConfig;
@@ -43,15 +45,8 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.Service;
  */
 public class MiniMRYarnCluster extends MiniYARNCluster {
 
-  public static final String HADOOP_MAPREDUCE_CLIENT_APP_JAR_NAME =
-  "hadoop-mapreduce-client-app-0.23.0-SNAPSHOT.jar";
-  
-  public static final String YARN_MAPREDUCE_APP_JAR_PATH =
-  "$YARN_HOME/modules/" + HADOOP_MAPREDUCE_CLIENT_APP_JAR_NAME;
-
-  public static final String APPJAR =
-    "../hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/target/"
-        + HADOOP_MAPREDUCE_CLIENT_APP_JAR_NAME;
+  public static final String APPJAR = System.getProperty("yarn.mr.jar", JobConf
+      .findContainingJar(LocalContainerLauncher.class));
 
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(MiniMRYarnCluster.class);
   private JobHistoryServer historyServer;
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
index c3d3fd9d27e..ecb136f305f 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-tests</artifactId>
@@ -99,6 +105,15 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <yarn.ds.jar>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</yarn.ds.jar>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
index 769ae1c9a83..78d9869ef59 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.MiniYARNCluster;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@ public class TestDistributedShell {
   protected static MiniYARNCluster yarnCluster = null;
   protected static Configuration conf = new Configuration();
 
-  protected static String APPMASTER_JAR = "../hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/target/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell-0.23.0-SNAPSHOT.jar";
+  protected static String APPMASTER_JAR = System.getProperty("yarn.ds.jar",
+      JobConf.findContainingJar(ApplicationMaster.class));
 
   @BeforeClass
   public static void setup() throws InterruptedException, IOException {