diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenIT0100Test.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenIT0100Test.java
index cbed63679c..597481a385 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenIT0100Test.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenIT0100Test.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;
 
 public class MavenIT0100Test
     extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase
@@ -40,21 +39,12 @@ public class MavenIT0100Test
         File child = new File( testDir, "parent/child" );
 
         Verifier verifier = new Verifier( child.getAbsolutePath() );
-
-        List options = new ArrayList();
-        options.add( "-Doutput=\"" + new File( child, "target/effective-pom.txt" ).getAbsolutePath() + "\"" );
-
-        verifier.setCliOptions( options );
-
-        List goals = new ArrayList();
-        goals.add( "org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.0.2:effective-pom" );
-        goals.add( "verify" );
-
-        verifier.executeGoals( goals );
-
+        verifier.executeGoal( "initialize" );
         verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
         verifier.resetStreams();
-
+        
+        Properties props = verifier.loadProperties( "target/parent.properties" );
+        assertEquals( "parent, child, parent, child", props.getProperty( "project.description" ) );
     }
-}
 
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/pom.xml
index 0f2e515f48..2e6531cbd4 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<?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 xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
   <parent>
      <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
@@ -7,38 +28,30 @@
      <version>1.0</version>
   </parent>
 
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>child</artifactId>
-  <name>child</name>
-
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
+  <name>child</name>
+  <description>${pom.parent.artifactId}, ${pom.artifactId}, ${parent.artifactId}, ${pom.artifactId}</description>
+
   <build>
     <plugins>
-      <!--
       <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-expression</artifactId>
+        <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <executions>
           <execution>
-            <configuration>
-              <output>target/effective-pom.txt</output>
-            </configuration>
             <phase>initialize</phase>
             <goals>
-              <goal>effective-pom</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-    -->
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-verifier-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <phase>verify</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>verify</goal>
+              <goal>eval</goal>
             </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputFile>target/${project.parent.artifactId}.properties</outputFile>
+              <expressions>
+                <expression>project/description</expression>
+              </expressions>
+            </configuration>
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/src/test/verifier/verifications.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/src/test/verifier/verifications.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 43cb3f4e53..0000000000
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/child/src/test/verifier/verifications.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<verifications>
-  <files>
-    <file>
-      <location>target/effective-pom.txt</location>
-      <contains>Parent: parent, project: child</contains>
-    </file>
-  </files>
-</verifications>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/pom.xml
index c06f293a24..f9ef88d417 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/parent/pom.xml
@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<?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 xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0100</groupId>
   <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <version>1.0</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
   <name>parent</name>
 
-    <build>
-    <plugins>
-     <plugin>
-     <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
-     <executions>
-     <execution>
-     <phase>validate</phase>
-     <configuration>
-     <tasks>
-     <echo>Parent: ${pom.parent.artifactId}, project: ${pom.artifactId}</echo>
-     <echo>Parent: ${parent.artifactId}, project: ${pom.artifactId}</echo>
-     </tasks>
-     </configuration>
-     <goals>
-     <goal>run</goal>
-     </goals>       
-     </execution>   
-     </executions>  
-     </plugin>
-    </plugins>
-    </build>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/pom.xml
index c55ca22b8f..ab80ad8d15 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/it0100/pom.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,35 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<?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 xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0100</name> 
+
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.it0100</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-it-it0100</artifactId>
-  <description>Test that ${parent.artifactId} resolves correctly. [MNG-2124]</description>
-  <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <version>1.0</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: it0100</name> 
+  <description>Test that ${parent.artifactId} resolves correctly. [MNG-2124]</description>
+
   <modules>
     <module>parent/child</module>
   </modules>