We have these test properties duplicated in many places:

https://github.com/jbosstm/narayana/blob/master/XTS/localjunit/pom.xml#L22

We should move them up to the root pom.xml to simplify maintenance. As part of this task you need to hunt out all these usages and similar. Then come up with a common set of properties that works in all cases and move to the root pom.xml.