diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest.java
index a55f60bb54..e329beaed2 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public class MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest
 
     public MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest()
     {
-        super( "(2.0.2,)" );
+        super();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -47,14 +47,16 @@ public class MavenITmng0761MissingSnapshotDistRepoTest
         throws Exception
     {
         File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-0761" );
+
         Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
-        verifier.deleteArtifact( "org.apache.maven", "maven-it-it0062-SNAPSHOT", "1.0", "jar" );
-        verifier.executeGoal( "deploy" );
-        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/classes/org/apache/maven/it0062/Person.class" );
-        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/maven-it-it0062-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" );
+        verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+        verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
+        verifier.deleteArtifacts( "org.apache.maven.its.mng0761" );
+        verifier.executeGoal( "validate" );
         verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
         verifier.resetStreams();
 
+        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng0761/test/1.0-SNAPSHOT/test-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" );
     }
-}
 
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest.java
index ce5ac60e45..23a5b7b999 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest.java
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ public class MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest
         {
             // phase 1: run build in online mode to fill local repo
             Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+            verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+            verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
             verifier.deleteArtifacts( "org.apache.maven.its.it0069" );
             verifier.setLogFileName( "log1.txt" );
             verifier.executeGoal( "org.apache.maven.its.plugins:maven-it-plugin-dependency-resolution:2.1-SNAPSHOT:compile" );
@@ -58,6 +60,8 @@ public class MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest
         {
             // phase 2: run build in offline mode to check it still passes (after deleting test repo, to be sure)
             Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+            verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+            verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
             verifier.deleteDirectory( "repo" );
             List cliOptions = new ArrayList();
             cliOptions.add( "-o" );
@@ -72,6 +76,8 @@ public class MavenITmng0768OfflineModeTest
         {
             // phase 3: delete test artifact and run build in offline mode to check it fails now
             Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+            verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+            verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
             verifier.deleteArtifacts( "org.apache.maven.its.it0069" );
             List cliOptions = new ArrayList();
             cliOptions.add( "-o" );
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0773SettingsProfileReactorPollutionTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0773SettingsProfileReactorPollutionTest.java
index b5e7cf6f92..002822f932 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0773SettingsProfileReactorPollutionTest.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0773SettingsProfileReactorPollutionTest.java
@@ -37,22 +37,22 @@ public class MavenITmng0773SettingsProfileReactorPollutionTest
 {
 
     /**
-     * Verify that profiles from settings.xml do not pollute module lists
-     * across projects in a reactorized build.
+     * Verify that profiles from settings.xml do not pollute module lists across projects in a reactorized build.
      */
     public void testitMNG773()
         throws Exception
     {
         File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-0773" );
+
         Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+        verifier.setAutoclean( false );
         List cliOptions = new ArrayList();
-        cliOptions.add( "--settings settings.xml" );
+        cliOptions.add( "--settings" );
+        cliOptions.add( "settings.xml" );
         verifier.setCliOptions( cliOptions );
-        verifier.executeGoal( "package" );
-        verifier.assertFilePresent( "subproject/target/subproject-1.0.jar" );
+        verifier.executeGoal( "validate" );
         verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
         verifier.resetStreams();
-
     }
-}
 
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0781PluginConfigVsExecConfigTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0781PluginConfigVsExecConfigTest.java
index c03137e649..add2e0d0b1 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0781PluginConfigVsExecConfigTest.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0781PluginConfigVsExecConfigTest.java
@@ -42,12 +42,16 @@ public class MavenITmng0781PluginConfigVsExecConfigTest
         throws Exception
     {
         File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-0781" );
+
         Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+        verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+        verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
         verifier.executeGoal( "process-resources" );
-        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/exec-level.txt" );
-        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/resources-resources.txt" );
         verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
         verifier.resetStreams();
+
+        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/exec-level.txt" );
+        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/resources-resources.txt" );
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0814ExplicitProfileActivationTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0814ExplicitProfileActivationTest.java
index 9f7d222491..2f89c595e9 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0814ExplicitProfileActivationTest.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng0814ExplicitProfileActivationTest.java
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ import org.apache.maven.it.Verifier;
 import org.apache.maven.it.util.ResourceExtractor;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
  * This is a test set for <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-814">MNG-814</a>.
@@ -43,16 +42,18 @@ public class MavenITmng0814ExplicitProfileActivationTest
         throws Exception
     {
         File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-0814" );
+
         Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
-        verifier.deleteArtifact( "org.apache.maven", "maven-core-it-support", "1.0", "jar" );
-        List cliOptions = new ArrayList();
-        cliOptions.add( "-P test-profile" );
-        verifier.setCliOptions( cliOptions );
-        verifier.executeGoal( "compile" );
-        verifier.assertFilePresent( "target/classes/org/apache/maven/it0067/Person.class" );
+        verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+        verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
+        verifier.getCliOptions().add( "-P" );
+        verifier.getCliOptions().add( "test-profile" );
+        verifier.executeGoal( "validate" );
         verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
         verifier.resetStreams();
 
+        Properties props = verifier.loadProperties( "target/profile.properties" );
+        assertEquals( "PASSED", props.getProperty( "project.properties.testProp" ) );
     }
-}
 
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/main.jar b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/main.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..737e078fc4
Binary files /dev/null and b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/main.jar differ
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/pom.xml
index d1d61e118b..969cebfb2f 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/pom.xml
@@ -1,15 +1,66 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
 <project>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0062</name> 
-  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0062</groupId>
-  <artifactId>maven-it-it0062</artifactId>
-  <description>Test that a deployment of a snapshot falls back to a non-snapshot repository if no snapshot repository is
-        specified.</description>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng0761</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
   <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-761</name> 
+  <description>
+    Test that a deployment of a snapshot falls back to a non-snapshot repository if no snapshot repository is
+    specified.
+  </description>
+
   <distributionManagement>
     <repository>
       <id>repo</id>
-      <url>file://localhost/${project.basedir}/target/test-repo</url>
+      <url>file://localhost/${project.basedir}/target/repo</url>
+      <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
     </repository>
   </distributionManagement>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-artifact</artifactId>
+        <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <mainFile>main.jar</mainFile>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>test</id>
+            <phase>validate</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>set</goal>
+              <goal>install</goal>
+              <goal>deploy</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0062/Person.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0062/Person.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d34f37e5b8..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0761/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0062/Person.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.maven.it0062;
-
-public class Person
-{
-    private String name;
-    
-    public void setName( String name )
-    {
-        this.name = name;
-    }
-    
-    public String getName()
-    {
-        return name;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0768/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0768/pom.xml
index 8ca49f572e..5585982f49 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0768/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0768/pom.xml
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ under the License.
 <project>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0069</groupId>
-  <artifactId>maven-it-it0069</artifactId>
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng0768</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
   <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0069</name> 
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-768</name> 
   <description>Test offline mode.</description>
 
   <dependencies>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ under the License.
         <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
       </releases>
       <snapshots>
-        <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
+        <enabled>false</enabled>
       </snapshots>
     </repository>
   </repositories>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/pom.xml
index 4d38c96599..b2908ad4b8 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
 <project>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0058</name> 
-  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0058</groupId>
-  <artifactId>maven-it-it0058</artifactId>
-  <description>Verify that profiles from settings.xml do not pollute module lists
-        across projects in a reactorized build.</description>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng0773</groupId>
+  <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
   <version>1.0</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-773</name> 
+  <description>
+    Verify that profiles from settings.xml do not pollute module lists across projects in a reactorized build.
+   </description>
 
   <modules>
     <module>subproject</module>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/pom.xml
index 1b86badc6d..07c18e8f72 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/pom.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,11 @@
 <project>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
   <parent>
-    <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0058</groupId>
-    <artifactId>maven-it-it0058</artifactId>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng0773</groupId>
+    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
     <version>1.0</version>
   </parent>
+
   <artifactId>subproject</artifactId>
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>3.8.1</version>
-      <type>jar</type>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0058/Person.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0058/Person.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ec4671521..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0058/Person.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.maven.it0058;
-
-public class Person
-{
-    private String name;
-    
-    public void setName( String name )
-    {
-        this.name = name;
-    }
-    
-    public String getName()
-    {
-        return name;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/main/resources/it0058.properties b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/main/resources/it0058.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index f54f8ab106..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/main/resources/it0058.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-name = jason
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0058/PersonTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0058/PersonTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index c1c7b69e52..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0773/subproject/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0058/PersonTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.maven.it0058;
-
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
-public class PersonTest
-    extends TestCase
-{
-    public void testPerson()
-    {
-        Person person = new Person();
-        
-        person.setName( "foo" );
-        
-        assertEquals( "foo", person.getName() );
-    }
-}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/pom.xml
index 5cfb717b60..96c2f0e5ad 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/pom.xml
@@ -1,22 +1,63 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
 <project>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0067</name> 
-  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0067</groupId>
-  <artifactId>maven-it-it0067</artifactId>
-  <description>Test activation of a profile from the command line.</description>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng0814</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
   <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-814</name> 
+  <description>Test activation of a profile from the command line.</description>
   
   <profiles>
     <profile>
       <id>test-profile</id>
-      
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>junit</groupId>
-          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-          <version>3.8.1</version>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
+      <properties>
+        <testProp>PASSED</testProp>
+      </properties>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-expression</artifactId>
+            <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <phase>validate</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>eval</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <outputFile>target/profile.properties</outputFile>
+                  <expressions>
+                    <expression>project/properties</expression>
+                  </expressions>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0067/Person.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0067/Person.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 91a0420c56..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-0814/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/it0067/Person.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.maven.it0067;
-
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
-public class Person
-{
-    private String name;
-    
-    public void setName( String name )
-    {
-        this.name = name;
-    }
-    
-    public String getName()
-    {
-        return name;
-    }
-}