diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 4a5808a6c6..086a77f26d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -912,7 +912,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
-              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>${testsThreadCount}</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
               <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine} -DminiClusterDedicatedDirs=true</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
index 692af3e70b..71be87347a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <forkCount>1</forkCount>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <threadCount>1</threadCount>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-registry/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-registry/pom.xml
index 72abe20246..5cfc2fe673 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-registry/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-registry/pom.xml
@@ -220,7 +220,6 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
       <configuration>
-        <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
         <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
         <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>900</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
         <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
index e5fa1c0dd9..e571d744e5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <threadCount>1</threadCount>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <systemPropertyVariables>
@@ -361,7 +360,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
-              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>1</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
               <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 3ada6b89b7..df5d2cce9a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -461,7 +461,6 @@ https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
-              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>${testsThreadCount}</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
               <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine} -DminiClusterDedicatedDirs=true</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 4db0ec79cf..9063e30231 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
     <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
     <!--Whether to proceed to next module if any test failures exist-->
-    <ignoreTestFailure>true</ignoreTestFailure>
+    <maven.test.failure.ignore>true</maven.test.failure.ignore>
     <maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>
     <jetty.version>9.4.43.v20210629</jetty.version>
     <test.exclude>_</test.exclude>
@@ -2084,7 +2084,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>${surefire.fork.timeout}</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine}</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
index b438e5cc9a..5e306ea938 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <forkCount>1</forkCount>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>