diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/translator/ResultMetadata.java b/asterixdb/asterix-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/translator/ResultMetadata.java
index 78f84ff..60f4939 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/translator/ResultMetadata.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-algebra/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/translator/ResultMetadata.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     private Set<Warning> warnings;
     private long totalWarningsCount;
     private transient List<Object> outputTypes;
+    private long queueWaitTimeInNanos;
 
     public ResultMetadata(SessionConfig.OutputFormat format) {
         this.format = format;
@@ -104,6 +105,14 @@
         return outputTypes;
     }
 
+    public long getQueueWaitTimeInNanos() {
+        return queueWaitTimeInNanos;
+    }
+
+    public void setQueueWaitTimeInNanos(long queueWaitTimeInNanos) {
+        this.queueWaitTimeInNanos = queueWaitTimeInNanos;
+    }
+
     @Override
     public String toString() {
         return "ResultMetadata{" + "format=" + format + ", jobDuration=" + jobDuration + ", processedObjects="
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/JobResultCallback.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/JobResultCallback.java
index 66d81d2..ebf169f 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/JobResultCallback.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/JobResultCallback.java
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
                     }
                 }
             }
+            metadata.setQueueWaitTimeInNanos(run.getJobProfile().getQueueWaitTimeInNanos());
         }
         metadata.setProcessedObjects(processedObjects);
         metadata.setWarnings(AggregateWarnings);
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java
index 6dd6cc9..ed6d529 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java
@@ -5145,10 +5145,7 @@
                 (org.apache.asterix.translator.ResultMetadata) controllerService.getResultDirectoryService()
                         .getResultMetadata(jobId, rsId);
         stats.setProcessedObjects(resultMetadata.getProcessedObjects());
-        if (controllerService.getJobManager().get(jobId) != null) {
-            stats.setQueueWaitTime(
-                    controllerService.getJobManager().get(jobId).getJobProfile().getQueueWaitTimeInNanos());
-        }
+        stats.setQueueWaitTime(resultMetadata.getQueueWaitTimeInNanos());
         if (jobFlags.contains(JobFlag.PROFILE_RUNTIME)) {
             stats.setJobProfile(resultMetadata.getJobProfile());
             apiFramework.generateOptimizedLogicalPlanWithProfile(resultMetadata.getJobProfile());
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml b/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml
index 98517ef..69ad7c8 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml
@@ -587,8 +587,8 @@
           <licenses>
             <license>
                 <displayName>Various 3rd party</displayName>
-                <url>file://${basedir}}/../asterix-dashboard/src/main/resources/dashboard/static/3rdpartylicenses.txt</url>
-                <contentFile>${basedir}}/../asterix-dashboard/src/main/resources/dashboard/static/3rdpartylicenses.txt</contentFile>
+                <url>file://${basedir}/../asterix-dashboard/src/main/resources/dashboard/static/3rdpartylicenses.txt</url>
+                <contentFile>${basedir}/../asterix-dashboard/src/main/resources/dashboard/static/3rdpartylicenses.txt</contentFile>
             </license>
             <license>
               <displayName>a BSD 3-clause license</displayName>
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hyracks-server</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-server-test</artifactId>
       <type>test-jar</type>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/asterixdb/pom.xml b/asterixdb/pom.xml
index 8f97ef4..e31b4ac 100644
--- a/asterixdb/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/pom.xml
@@ -90,11 +90,11 @@
     <hyracks.version>0.3.9-SNAPSHOT</hyracks.version>
     <hadoop.version>3.3.6</hadoop.version>
     <jacoco.version>0.7.6.201602180812</jacoco.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.19.0</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>2.21.1</log4j.version>
     <awsjavasdk.version>2.20.135</awsjavasdk.version>
     <awsjavasdk.crt.version>0.27.1</awsjavasdk.crt.version>
     <parquet.version>1.12.3</parquet.version>
-    <hadoop-awsjavasdk.version>1.12.402</hadoop-awsjavasdk.version>
+    <hadoop-awsjavasdk.version>1.12.572</hadoop-awsjavasdk.version>
     <azureblobjavasdk.version>12.22.0</azureblobjavasdk.version>
     <azurecommonjavasdk.version>12.21.0</azurecommonjavasdk.version>
     <azureidentity.version>1.9.0</azureidentity.version>
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-        <version>1.7.33</version>
+        <version>1.7.36</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
@@ -1338,7 +1338,7 @@
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
-        <artifactId>hyracks-server</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>hyracks-server-test</artifactId>
         <version>${hyracks.version}</version>
         <type>test-jar</type>
       </dependency>
@@ -1874,7 +1874,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-csv</artifactId>
-        <version>1.9.0</version>
+        <version>1.10.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
@@ -1889,7 +1889,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
-        <version>4.5.11</version>
+        <version>4.5.14</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.msgpack</groupId>
diff --git a/asterixdb/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml b/asterixdb/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml
index eb94233..b8ec10c 100644
--- a/asterixdb/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/src/main/appended-resources/supplemental-models.xml
@@ -628,8 +628,8 @@
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-core</artifactId>
       <properties>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
       </properties>
     </project>
   </supplement>
@@ -639,8 +639,8 @@
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>jmespath-java</artifactId>
       <properties>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
       </properties>
     </project>
   </supplement>
@@ -650,8 +650,8 @@
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
       <properties>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
       </properties>
     </project>
   </supplement>
@@ -661,8 +661,8 @@
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-kms</artifactId>
       <properties>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
       </properties>
     </project>
   </supplement>
@@ -672,8 +672,8 @@
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-dynamodb</artifactId>
       <properties>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
-        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.402</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedLicense>
+        <license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>1.12.572</license.ignoreMissingEmbeddedNotice>
       </properties>
     </project>
   </supplement>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-examples/hyracks-shutdown-test/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-examples/hyracks-shutdown-test/pom.xml
index 3cc80a3..64ac919 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-examples/hyracks-shutdown-test/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-examples/hyracks-shutdown-test/pom.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
             <usedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-control-nc</usedDependency>
             <usedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-control-cc</usedDependency>
           </usedDependencies>
+          <ignoredNonTestScopedDependencies>
+            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-ipc:*</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>
+            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-api:*</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>
+            <ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:*</ignoredNonTestScopedDependency>
+          </ignoredNonTestScopedDependencies>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
@@ -191,31 +196,26 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-ipc</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-api</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <type>jar</type>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-control-nc</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-control-cc</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml
index bdae4c2..c19ba81 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/pom.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpcore-nio</artifactId>
-      <version>4.4.15</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/CLFLogger.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/CLFLogger.java
index 1f5b441..219995b 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/CLFLogger.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/CLFLogger.java
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@
     private static final Level ACCESS_LOG_LEVEL = Level.forName("ACCESS", 550);
     private static final DateTimeFormatter DATE_TIME_FORMATTER =
             DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z").withZone(ZoneId.systemDefault());
-    private StringBuilder logLineBuilder;
+    private final StringBuilder logLineBuilder;
 
+    private final Logger accessLogger;
     private String clientIp;
     private Instant requestTime;
     private String reqLine;
@@ -58,7 +59,12 @@
     private boolean lastChunk = false;
 
     public CLFLogger() {
+        this(LOGGER);
+    }
+
+    public CLFLogger(Logger accessLogger) {
         this.logLineBuilder = new StringBuilder();
+        this.accessLogger = accessLogger;
         respSize = 0;
     }
 
@@ -121,7 +127,7 @@
     }
 
     private void printAndPrepare() {
-        if (!LOGGER.isEnabled(ACCESS_LOG_LEVEL)) {
+        if (!accessLogger.isEnabled(ACCESS_LOG_LEVEL)) {
             return;
         }
         logLineBuilder.append(clientIp);
@@ -136,7 +142,7 @@
         logLineBuilder.append(" ").append(statusCode);
         logLineBuilder.append(" ").append(respSize);
         logLineBuilder.append(" ").append(userAgentRef);
-        LOGGER.log(ACCESS_LOG_LEVEL, logLineBuilder);
+        accessLogger.log(ACCESS_LOG_LEVEL, logLineBuilder);
         respSize = 0;
         logLineBuilder.setLength(0);
     }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java
index b7b33a7..ad8a61f 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-http/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/http/server/HttpServerInitializer.java
@@ -49,8 +49,12 @@
         p.addLast(new HttpRequestCapacityController(server));
         p.addLast(new HttpRequestDecoder(maxRequestInitialLineLength, maxRequestHeaderSize, maxRequestChunkSize));
         p.addLast(new HttpResponseEncoder());
-        p.addLast(new CLFLogger());
+        p.addLast(getCLFLogger());
         p.addLast(new HttpRequestAggregator(maxRequestSize));
         p.addLast(server.createHttpHandler(maxResponseChunkSize));
     }
+
+    protected CLFLogger getCLFLogger() {
+        return new CLFLogger();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/pom.xml
index 2ce2473..a11890c 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/pom.xml
@@ -44,21 +44,12 @@
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>test-jar</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <usedDependencies combine.children="append">
             <usedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-control-nc</usedDependency>
+            <usedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-control-cc</usedDependency>
+            <usedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-nc-service</usedDependency>
           </usedDependencies>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
@@ -71,23 +62,6 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <runOrder>alphabetical</runOrder>
-          <forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
-        </configuration>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>integration-test</goal>
-              <goal>verify</goal>
-            </goals>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
-
-      <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
@@ -148,49 +122,16 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-control-cc</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-nc-service</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hyracks-util</artifactId>
-      <version>${project.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
       <artifactId>hyracks-control-nc</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4711390
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+<!--
+ ! 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>
+  <artifactId>hyracks-server-test</artifactId>
+  <name>hyracks-server-test</name>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hyracks-tests</artifactId>
+    <version>0.3.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>Apache License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+      <comments>A business-friendly OSS license</comments>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <properties>
+    <root.dir>${basedir}/../../..</root.dir>
+  </properties>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>test-jar</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <usedDependencies combine.children="append">
+            <usedDependency>org.apache.hyracks:hyracks-server</usedDependency>
+          </usedDependencies>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <phase>process-test-classes</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>analyze-only</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <runOrder>alphabetical</runOrder>
+          <forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>integration-test</goal>
+              <goal>verify</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-control-cc</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-nc-service</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-server</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+<!--
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-control-nc</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+-->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hyracks</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hyracks-util</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/NCServiceIT.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/NCServiceIT.java
similarity index 97%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/NCServiceIT.java
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/NCServiceIT.java
index cd0359f..5ae57cd 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/NCServiceIT.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/NCServiceIT.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     private static final String TARGET_DIR = FileUtil.joinPath(".", "target");
     private static final String LOG_DIR = FileUtil.joinPath(TARGET_DIR, "failsafe-reports");
     private static final String RESOURCE_DIR = FileUtil.joinPath(TARGET_DIR, "test-classes", "NCServiceIT");
-    private static final String APP_HOME = FileUtil.joinPath(TARGET_DIR, "appassembler");
+    private static final String APP_HOME = FileUtil.joinPath("..", "..", "hyracks-server", "target", "appassembler");
     private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();
 
     private static HyracksVirtualCluster cluster = null;
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksCCProcess.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksCCProcess.java
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksCCProcess.java
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksCCProcess.java
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksNCServiceProcess.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksNCServiceProcess.java
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksNCServiceProcess.java
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksNCServiceProcess.java
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksServerProcess.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksServerProcess.java
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksServerProcess.java
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksServerProcess.java
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksVirtualCluster.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksVirtualCluster.java
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksVirtualCluster.java
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/test/server/process/HyracksVirtualCluster.java
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/cc.conf b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/cc.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/cc.conf
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/cc.conf
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-blue.conf b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-blue.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-blue.conf
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-blue.conf
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-red.conf b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-red.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-red.conf
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/NCServiceIT/nc-red.conf
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/logging.properties b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/logging.properties
similarity index 100%
rename from hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-server/src/test/resources/logging.properties
rename to hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-server-test/src/test/resources/logging.properties
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml
index 3b6c8f5..3c33de0 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/pom.xml
@@ -52,5 +52,6 @@
     <module>hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test</module>
     <module>hyracks-storage-am-bloomfilter-test</module>
     <module>hyracks-dataflow-common-test</module>
+    <module>hyracks-server-test</module>
   </modules>
 </project>
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
index 3016755..83daeda 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/pom.xml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     <!-- Versions under dependencymanagement or used in many projects via properties -->
     <hadoop.version>3.3.6</hadoop.version>
     <jacoco.version>0.7.6.201602180812</jacoco.version>
-    <log4j.version>2.19.0</log4j.version>
+    <log4j.version>2.21.1</log4j.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.10.5</snappy.version>
     <jackson.version>2.14.3</jackson.version>
     <jackson-databind.version>${jackson.version}</jackson-databind.version>
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
         <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-        <version>3.12.0</version>
+        <version>3.13.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
@@ -340,12 +340,17 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-        <version>4.4.15</version>
+        <version>4.4.16</version>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+        <artifactId>httpcore-nio</artifactId>
+        <version>4.4.16</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
         <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-        <version>4.5.13</version>
+        <version>4.5.14</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
@@ -430,7 +435,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-        <version>1.7.33</version>
+        <version>1.7.36</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>