diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index bcba2288300f3..a75ab5ecc4569 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -915,7 +915,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
-              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>${testsThreadCount}</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
               <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine} -DminiClusterDedicatedDirs=true</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
index 9de8b9caf6e68..96588a22b9419 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${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 171b7229035fb..725dda50f216b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-registry/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-registry/pom.xml
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
       <configuration>
-        <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
         <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
         <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>900</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
         <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
index 1916ef0e3b7f6..a1b3ab1f92397 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${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>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>1</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
               <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 10d66d055ba35..bc05d850fe8f7 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -471,7 +471,6 @@ https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
-              <testFailureIgnore>${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 ca6886641fdb2..46f585317e821 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>
@@ -2118,7 +2118,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>${surefire.fork.timeout}</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine}</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
index 7e5aaebc08513..55738ef808c28 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <forkCount>1</forkCount>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-federation-balance/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-federation-balance/pom.xml
index 588bb98f3e75a..71f2cb3639137 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-federation-balance/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-federation-balance/pom.xml
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
-          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <forkCount>1</forkCount>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>