diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/pom.xml
index 8cffeae9f8..9308d0cb17 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/pom.xml
@@ -65,16 +65,6 @@
       <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
       <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-     <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
-      <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
-      <artifactId>tomcat-embed-logging-juli</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/AuthenticatorTestCase.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/AuthenticatorTestCase.java
index 8b9d45e0e8..969cd7b686 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/AuthenticatorTestCase.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/AuthenticatorTestCase.java
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.client;
 
-import org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef;
-import org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterMap;
-import org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.server.AuthenticationFilter;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
@@ -45,7 +42,6 @@
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -65,18 +61,12 @@ public class AuthenticatorTestCase {
   private Server server;
   private String host = null;
   private int port = -1;
-  private boolean useTomcat = false;
-  private Tomcat tomcat = null;
   ServletContextHandler context;
 
   private static Properties authenticatorConfig;
 
   public AuthenticatorTestCase() {}
 
-  public AuthenticatorTestCase(boolean useTomcat) {
-    this.useTomcat = useTomcat;
-  }
-
   protected static void setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(Properties config) {
     authenticatorConfig = config;
   }
@@ -120,8 +110,7 @@ protected int getLocalPort() throws Exception {
   }
 
   protected void start() throws Exception {
-    if (useTomcat) startTomcat();
-    else startJetty();
+    startJetty();
   }
 
   protected void startJetty() throws Exception {
@@ -142,32 +131,8 @@ protected void startJetty() throws Exception {
     System.out.println("Running embedded servlet container at: http://" + host + ":" + port);
   }
 
-  protected void startTomcat() throws Exception {
-    tomcat = new Tomcat();
-    File base = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));
-    org.apache.catalina.Context ctx =
-      tomcat.addContext("/foo",base.getAbsolutePath());
-    FilterDef fd = new FilterDef();
-    fd.setFilterClass(TestFilter.class.getName());
-    fd.setFilterName("TestFilter");
-    FilterMap fm = new FilterMap();
-    fm.setFilterName("TestFilter");
-    fm.addURLPattern("/*");
-    fm.addServletName("/bar");
-    ctx.addFilterDef(fd);
-    ctx.addFilterMap(fm);
-    tomcat.addServlet(ctx, "/bar", TestServlet.class.getName());
-    ctx.addServletMapping("/bar", "/bar");
-    host = "localhost";
-    port = getLocalPort();
-    tomcat.setHostname(host);
-    tomcat.setPort(port);
-    tomcat.start();
-  }
-
   protected void stop() throws Exception {
-    if (useTomcat) stopTomcat();
-    else stopJetty();
+    stopJetty();
   }
 
   protected void stopJetty() throws Exception {
@@ -182,18 +147,6 @@ protected void stopJetty() throws Exception {
     }
   }
 
-  protected void stopTomcat() throws Exception {
-    try {
-      tomcat.stop();
-    } catch (Exception e) {
-    }
-
-    try {
-      tomcat.destroy();
-    } catch (Exception e) {
-    }
-  }
-
   protected String getBaseURL() {
     return "http://" + host + ":" + port + "/foo/bar";
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/TestKerberosAuthenticator.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/TestKerberosAuthenticator.java
index 8ba1205b44..7db53bae06 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/TestKerberosAuthenticator.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/client/TestKerberosAuthenticator.java
@@ -28,33 +28,20 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.server.KerberosAuthenticationHandler;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Before;
-import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
-import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
 
-@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
+/**
+ * Test class for {@link KerberosAuthenticator}.
+ */
 public class TestKerberosAuthenticator extends KerberosSecurityTestcase {
 
-  private boolean useTomcat = false;
-
-  public TestKerberosAuthenticator(boolean useTomcat) {
-    this.useTomcat = useTomcat;
-  }
-
-  @Parameterized.Parameters
-  public static Collection booleans() {
-    return Arrays.asList(new Object[][] {
-      { false },
-      { true }
-    });
+  public TestKerberosAuthenticator() {
   }
 
   @Before
@@ -93,7 +80,7 @@ private Properties getMultiAuthHandlerConfiguration() {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testFallbacktoPseudoAuthenticator() throws Exception {
-    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     Properties props = new Properties();
     props.setProperty(AuthenticationFilter.AUTH_TYPE, "simple");
     props.setProperty(PseudoAuthenticationHandler.ANONYMOUS_ALLOWED, "false");
@@ -103,7 +90,7 @@ public void testFallbacktoPseudoAuthenticator() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testFallbacktoPseudoAuthenticatorAnonymous() throws Exception {
-    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     Properties props = new Properties();
     props.setProperty(AuthenticationFilter.AUTH_TYPE, "simple");
     props.setProperty(PseudoAuthenticationHandler.ANONYMOUS_ALLOWED, "true");
@@ -113,7 +100,7 @@ public void testFallbacktoPseudoAuthenticatorAnonymous() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testNotAuthenticated() throws Exception {
-    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase.setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(getAuthenticationHandlerConfiguration());
     auth.start();
     try {
@@ -129,7 +116,7 @@ public void testNotAuthenticated() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testAuthentication() throws Exception {
-    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase.setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(
             getAuthenticationHandlerConfiguration());
     KerberosTestUtils.doAsClient(new Callable<Void>() {
@@ -143,7 +130,7 @@ public Void call() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testAuthenticationPost() throws Exception {
-    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase.setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(
             getAuthenticationHandlerConfiguration());
     KerberosTestUtils.doAsClient(new Callable<Void>() {
@@ -157,7 +144,7 @@ public Void call() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testAuthenticationHttpClient() throws Exception {
-    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase.setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(
             getAuthenticationHandlerConfiguration());
     KerberosTestUtils.doAsClient(new Callable<Void>() {
@@ -171,7 +158,7 @@ public Void call() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testAuthenticationHttpClientPost() throws Exception {
-    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase.setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(
             getAuthenticationHandlerConfiguration());
     KerberosTestUtils.doAsClient(new Callable<Void>() {
@@ -185,7 +172,7 @@ public Void call() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout = 60000)
   public void testNotAuthenticatedWithMultiAuthHandler() throws Exception {
-    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase
         .setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(getMultiAuthHandlerConfiguration());
     auth.start();
@@ -204,7 +191,7 @@ public void testNotAuthenticatedWithMultiAuthHandler() throws Exception {
 
   @Test(timeout = 60000)
   public void testAuthenticationWithMultiAuthHandler() throws Exception {
-    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase
         .setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(getMultiAuthHandlerConfiguration());
     KerberosTestUtils.doAsClient(new Callable<Void>() {
@@ -219,7 +206,7 @@ public Void call() throws Exception {
   @Test(timeout = 60000)
   public void testAuthenticationHttpClientPostWithMultiAuthHandler()
       throws Exception {
-    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase(useTomcat);
+    final AuthenticatorTestCase auth = new AuthenticatorTestCase();
     AuthenticatorTestCase
         .setAuthenticationHandlerConfig(getMultiAuthHandlerConfiguration());
     KerberosTestUtils.doAsClient(new Callable<Void>() {
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 66958a29f7..82f3b552bf 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -643,16 +643,6 @@
         <artifactId>jetty-util-ajax</artifactId>
         <version>${jetty.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
-        <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
-        <version>7.0.55</version>
-      </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
-        <artifactId>tomcat-embed-logging-juli</artifactId>
-        <version>7.0.55</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
         <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>