diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 29e3fb4e87..605bd505ea 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3280. Removed the unnecessary job user-name configuration in
     mapred-site.xml. (vinodkv)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3370. Fixed MiniMRYarnCluster and related tests to not use
+    a hard-coded path for the mr-app jar. (Ahmed Radwan via vinodkv)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
index 9475681d6d..0ff0a43284 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java
@@ -1833,7 +1833,7 @@ int computeNumSlotsPerReduce(long slotSizePerReduce) {
    * @return a jar file that contains the class, or null.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  static String findContainingJar(Class my_class) {
+  public static String findContainingJar(Class my_class) {
     ClassLoader loader = my_class.getClassLoader();
     String class_file = my_class.getName().replaceAll("\\.", "/") + ".class";
     try {
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
index 3a64caa826..ee4e7b4cbe 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <yarn.mr.jar>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</yarn.mr.jar>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
           <additionalClasspathElements>
             <!-- workaround for JobConf#setJarByClass -->
             <additionalClasspathElement>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-tests.jar</additionalClasspathElement>
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java
index 8e65672f9c..dd20f58084 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/MiniMRYarnCluster.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalContainerLauncher;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ShuffleHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.MRConfig;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.MRJobConfig;
@@ -49,9 +51,8 @@ public class MiniMRYarnCluster extends MiniYARNCluster {
   public static final String YARN_MAPREDUCE_APP_JAR_PATH =
   "$YARN_HOME/modules/" + HADOOP_MAPREDUCE_CLIENT_APP_JAR_NAME;
 
-  public static final String APPJAR =
-    "../hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/target/"
-        + HADOOP_MAPREDUCE_CLIENT_APP_JAR_NAME;
+  public static final String APPJAR = System.getProperty("yarn.mr.jar", JobConf
+      .findContainingJar(LocalContainerLauncher.class));
 
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(MiniMRYarnCluster.class);
   private JobHistoryServer historyServer;
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
index b3a49bff1d..60baa84d7f 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/pom.xml
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-tests</artifactId>
@@ -99,6 +105,15 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <yarn.ds.jar>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</yarn.ds.jar>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
index d0407daa2b..78d9869ef5 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/TestDistributedShell.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.MiniYARNCluster;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@ public class TestDistributedShell {
   protected static MiniYARNCluster yarnCluster = null;
   protected static Configuration conf = new Configuration();
 
-  protected static String APPMASTER_JAR = "../hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/target/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell-0.24.0-SNAPSHOT.jar";
+  protected static String APPMASTER_JAR = System.getProperty("yarn.ds.jar",
+      JobConf.findContainingJar(ApplicationMaster.class));
 
   @BeforeClass
   public static void setup() throws InterruptedException, IOException {