Github user mxm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1757#issuecomment-191842883
Setting the Surefire working directory is not possible because the Shade
plugin changes the basedir beforehand. We will have to change the test cases
for now if we don't want to have a dependency reduced pom in the basedir.
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