diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml b/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml
index 72c84e4..91ca7ce 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-server/pom.xml
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <appendedResourcesDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/appended-resources</appendedResourcesDirectory>
-    <failsafe.test.excludes>**/DmlRecoveryIT.java</failsafe.test.excludes>
-    <cluster.test.excludes>**/AsterixClusterLifeCycleIT.java</cluster.test.excludes>
-    <cluster.extest.excludes>**/ClusterExecutionIT.java</cluster.extest.excludes>
     <appendedResourcesDirectory>${basedir}/../src/main/appended-resources</appendedResourcesDirectory>
   </properties>
 
@@ -340,27 +336,6 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <excludes combine.children="append">
-            <exclude>${failsafe.test.excludes}</exclude>
-            <exclude>${cluster.test.excludes}</exclude>
-            <exclude>${cluster.extest.excludes}</exclude>
-          </excludes>
-          <executions>
-              <execution>
-                  <id>run-tests</id>
-                  <phase>integration-test</phase>
-                  <goals>
-                      <goal>integration-test</goal>
-                      <goal>verify</goal>
-                  </goals>
-              </execution>
-          </executions>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
-      <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
           <execution>
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/DmlRecoveryIT.java b/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/DmlRecoveryIT.java
deleted file mode 100644
index bac49b2..0000000
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-server/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/server/test/DmlRecoveryIT.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * 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.
- */
-package org.apache.asterix.server.test;
-
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FilenameFilter;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collection;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.apache.asterix.test.base.RetainLogsRule;
-import org.apache.asterix.test.common.TestExecutor;
-import org.apache.asterix.testframework.context.TestCaseContext;
-import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
-import org.junit.AfterClass;
-import org.junit.BeforeClass;
-import org.junit.Rule;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.rules.TestRule;
-import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
-import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
-import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;
-
-@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
-public class DmlRecoveryIT {
-
-    // variable to indicate whether this test will be executed
-
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();
-    private static final String PATH_ACTUAL = "target" + File.separator + "rttest" + File.separator;
-
-    private static final String TESTSUITE_PATH_BASE = "../asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/";
-
-    private TestCaseContext tcCtx;
-    private static File asterixInstallerPath;
-    private static File installerTargetPath;
-    private static String managixHomeDirName;
-    private static String managixHomePath;
-    private static String scriptHomePath;
-    private static String reportPath;
-    private static ProcessBuilder pb;
-    private static Map<String, String> env;
-    private final TestExecutor testExecutor = new TestExecutor();
-
-    @Rule
-    public TestRule retainLogs = new RetainLogsRule(managixHomePath, reportPath, this);
-
-    @BeforeClass
-    public static void setUp() throws Exception {
-        File outdir = new File(PATH_ACTUAL);
-        outdir.mkdirs();
-
-        asterixInstallerPath = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
-        installerTargetPath = new File(asterixInstallerPath, "target");
-        reportPath = new File(installerTargetPath, "failsafe-reports").getAbsolutePath();
-        managixHomeDirName = installerTargetPath.list(new FilenameFilter() {
-            @Override
-            public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
-                return new File(dir, name).isDirectory() && name.startsWith("asterix-installer")
-                        && name.endsWith("binary-assembly");
-            }
-        })[0];
-        managixHomePath = new File(installerTargetPath, managixHomeDirName).getAbsolutePath();
-        LOGGER.info("MANAGIX_HOME=" + managixHomePath);
-
-        pb = new ProcessBuilder();
-        env = pb.environment();
-        env.put("MANAGIX_HOME", managixHomePath);
-        scriptHomePath = asterixInstallerPath + File.separator + "src" + File.separator + "test" + File.separator
-                + "resources" + File.separator + "transactionts" + File.separator + "scripts";
-        env.put("SCRIPT_HOME", scriptHomePath);
-
-        TestExecutor.executeScript(pb,
-                scriptHomePath + File.separator + "dml_recovery" + File.separator + "configure_and_validate.sh");
-        TestExecutor.executeScript(pb,
-                scriptHomePath + File.separator + "dml_recovery" + File.separator + "stop_and_delete.sh");
-
-        TestExecutor.executeScript(pb,
-                scriptHomePath + File.separator + "dml_recovery" + File.separator + "create_and_start.sh");
-
-    }
-
-    @AfterClass
-    public static void tearDown() throws Exception {
-        File outdir = new File(PATH_ACTUAL);
-        FileUtils.deleteDirectory(outdir);
-        TestExecutor.executeScript(pb,
-                scriptHomePath + File.separator + "dml_recovery" + File.separator + "stop_and_delete.sh");
-        TestExecutor.executeScript(pb,
-                scriptHomePath + File.separator + "dml_recovery" + File.separator + "shutdown.sh");
-
-    }
-
-    @Parameters
-    public static Collection<Object[]> tests() throws Exception {
-
-        Collection<Object[]> testArgs = new ArrayList<Object[]>();
-        TestCaseContext.Builder b = new TestCaseContext.Builder();
-        for (TestCaseContext ctx : b.build(new File(TESTSUITE_PATH_BASE))) {
-            if (ctx.getTestCase().getFilePath().equals("dml")) {
-                testArgs.add(new Object[] { ctx });
-            }
-        }
-        return testArgs;
-    }
-
-    public DmlRecoveryIT(TestCaseContext tcCtx) {
-        this.tcCtx = tcCtx;
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void test() throws Exception {
-        testExecutor.executeTest(PATH_ACTUAL, tcCtx, pb, true);
-    }
-}