diff --git a/its/.gitignore b/its/.gitignore
index 93298bd530..aa2d9663cf 100644
--- a/its/.gitignore
+++ b/its/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ bin
*.iml
*.iws
.DS_Store
+.idea
+
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
index 26f9f2abc3..22012da0b0 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ public class IntegrationTestSuite
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// suite.addTestSuite( MavenIT0108SnapshotUpdateTest.class ); -- MNG-3137
+ suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng5208EventSpyParallelTest.class );
suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng5387ArtifactReplacementPlugin.class );
suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng5382Jsr330Plugin.class );
suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng5338FileOptionToDirectory.class );
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng5208EventSpyParallelTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng5208EventSpyParallelTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e2467697f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng5208EventSpyParallelTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.apache.maven.it.util.ResourceExtractor;
+
+public class MavenITmng5208EventSpyParallelTest
+ extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase
+{
+
+ public MavenITmng5208EventSpyParallelTest()
+ {
+ super( "[3.0.5,)" );
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Verify spy signals correct module for failure
+ */
+ public void testCorrectModuleFails()
+ throws Exception
+ {
+ File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-5208" );
+
+ Verifier spy = newVerifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() + "/spy");
+ spy.executeGoal( "install" );
+
+ Verifier verifier = newVerifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() + "/project" );
+ verifier.setForkJvm( true );
+ verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+ verifier.deleteDirectory( "target" );
+ verifier.setSystemProperty( "maven.ext.class.path", "../spy/target/event-spy-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar" );
+ verifier.getCliOptions().add( "-X" );
+ verifier.getCliOptions().add( "-T 2" );
+ verifier.addCliOption( "-fn" );
+ verifier.executeGoal( "compile" );
+ verifier.verifyTextInLog( "ProjectFailed/org.apache.maven.its.mng5208:sub-2" );
+ verifier.resetStreams();
+ }
+
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e276556183
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+
+
+
+
+
+ 4.0.0
+
+ org.apache.maven.its.mng5208
+ root
+ 0.1
+ pom
+
+
+ sub-1
+ sub-2
+
+
+
+
+
+ org.apache.maven.its.plugins
+ maven-it-plugin-expression
+ 2.1-SNAPSHOT
+
+ target/project.properties
+
+ project/executionRoot
+ project/parent/executionRoot
+ project/parent/parent/executionRoot
+
+
+
+
+ test
+ validate
+
+ eval
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-1/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-1/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d035e3ba98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-1/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+
+
+
+
+
+ 4.0.0
+
+ org.apache.maven.its.mng5208
+ sub-1
+ 0.1
+ jar
+
+
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-2/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-2/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8d72b67ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-2/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+
+
+
+
+
+ 4.0.0
+
+ org.apache.maven.its.mng5208
+ sub-2
+ 0.1
+ jar
+
+
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-2/src/main/java/Bad.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-2/src/main/java/Bad.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fcac7092a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/project/sub-2/src/main/java/Bad.java
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This is not a java file
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/spy/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/spy/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..522e1cdb6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/spy/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+
+
+ 4.0.0
+ org.apache.maven.core.its.mng5208
+ event-spy
+ 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
+
+ UTF-8
+
+
+
+ org.apache.maven
+ maven-core
+ 3.0.3
+
+
+ org.codehaus.plexus
+ plexus-component-annotations
+ 1.5.5
+
+
+ junit
+ junit
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ org.codehaus.plexus
+ plexus-component-metadata
+ 1.5.5
+
+
+ process-classes
+
+ generate-metadata
+
+
+
+ process-test-classes
+
+ generate-test-metadata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/spy/src/main/java/EventLoggerSpy.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/spy/src/main/java/EventLoggerSpy.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c8fc349368
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5208/spy/src/main/java/EventLoggerSpy.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+
+import org.apache.maven.eventspy.AbstractEventSpy;
+import org.apache.maven.eventspy.EventSpy;
+import org.apache.maven.execution.ExecutionEvent;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.component.annotations.Component;
+
+@Component( role=EventSpy.class )
+public class EventLoggerSpy extends AbstractEventSpy {
+
+
+ @Override
+ public void init(Context context) throws Exception {
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void onEvent(Object event) throws Exception {
+ if (event instanceof ExecutionEvent) {
+
+ ExecutionEvent executionEvent = (ExecutionEvent) event;
+ System.out.println( "executionEvent:" + executionEvent.getType() + "/" + executionEvent.getProject().getId());
+ }
+ }
+}
+