diff --git a/common/network-common/pom.xml b/common/network-common/pom.xml
index b63c0ca173329..8657af744c069 100644
--- a/common/network-common/pom.xml
+++ b/common/network-common/pom.xml
@@ -91,6 +91,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
       <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/common/network-shuffle/pom.xml b/common/network-shuffle/pom.xml
index 5fc92afccbfb1..24c10fb1ddb9f 100644
--- a/common/network-shuffle/pom.xml
+++ b/common/network-shuffle/pom.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
diff --git a/common/network-yarn/pom.xml b/common/network-yarn/pom.xml
index 9fcd636c88822..5e5a80bd44467 100644
--- a/common/network-yarn/pom.xml
+++ b/common/network-yarn/pom.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <!-- Provided dependencies -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
diff --git a/common/sketch/pom.xml b/common/sketch/pom.xml
index 7f57108584c20..bcd26d4352b20 100644
--- a/common/sketch/pom.xml
+++ b/common/sketch/pom.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/common/tags/pom.xml b/common/tags/pom.xml
index 81191cb8f4a55..09f6fa12b9a22 100644
--- a/common/tags/pom.xml
+++ b/common/tags/pom.xml
@@ -34,14 +34,6 @@
     <sbt.project.name>tags</sbt.project.name>
   </properties>
 
-  <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
-      <artifactId>scalatest_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-  </dependencies>
-
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
     <testOutputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/test-classes</testOutputDirectory>
diff --git a/common/tags/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/tags/DockerTest.java b/common/tags/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/tags/DockerTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from common/tags/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/tags/DockerTest.java
rename to common/tags/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/tags/DockerTest.java
diff --git a/common/tags/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedHiveTest.java b/common/tags/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedHiveTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from common/tags/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedHiveTest.java
rename to common/tags/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedHiveTest.java
diff --git a/common/tags/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedYarnTest.java b/common/tags/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedYarnTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from common/tags/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedYarnTest.java
rename to common/tags/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/tags/ExtendedYarnTest.java
diff --git a/common/unsafe/pom.xml b/common/unsafe/pom.xml
index d00bddf5515cc..dc19f4ad5fb90 100644
--- a/common/unsafe/pom.xml
+++ b/common/unsafe/pom.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.twitter</groupId>
       <artifactId>chill_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 8ee88cc730abc..97a463abbefdd 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -337,6 +337,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-crypto</artifactId>
diff --git a/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml b/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml
index 6741932f3ddb0..8948df2da89e2 100644
--- a/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/external/docker-integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/external/flume-sink/pom.xml b/external/flume-sink/pom.xml
index 83619ccf258c6..6d547c46d6a2d 100644
--- a/external/flume-sink/pom.xml
+++ b/external/flume-sink/pom.xml
@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/external/flume/pom.xml b/external/flume/pom.xml
index 4a40f8ba28b7c..46901d64eda97 100644
--- a/external/flume/pom.xml
+++ b/external/flume/pom.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/external/java8-tests/pom.xml b/external/java8-tests/pom.xml
index 98467f2cc5c26..8fc46d7af2192 100644
--- a/external/java8-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/external/java8-tests/pom.xml
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml b/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml
index 29abd88fcff23..6cf448e65e8b4 100644
--- a/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml
+++ b/external/kafka-0-10-sql/pom.xml
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml b/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml
index b9ab57624c746..88499240cd569 100644
--- a/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml
+++ b/external/kafka-0-10/pom.xml
@@ -89,6 +89,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/external/kafka-0-8/pom.xml b/external/kafka-0-8/pom.xml
index bdb3b4d2f56e4..8368a1f12218d 100644
--- a/external/kafka-0-8/pom.xml
+++ b/external/kafka-0-8/pom.xml
@@ -89,6 +89,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/external/kinesis-asl/pom.xml b/external/kinesis-asl/pom.xml
index 32ea114856d8d..b2bac7c938ab5 100644
--- a/external/kinesis-asl/pom.xml
+++ b/external/kinesis-asl/pom.xml
@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/graphx/pom.xml b/graphx/pom.xml
index a9f7839917f30..8df33660ea9d1 100644
--- a/graphx/pom.xml
+++ b/graphx/pom.xml
@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/launcher/pom.xml b/launcher/pom.xml
index 899957f627786..025cd84f20f0e 100644
--- a/launcher/pom.xml
+++ b/launcher/pom.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,17 @@
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <!-- Not needed by the test code, but referenced by SparkSubmit which is used by the tests. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
diff --git a/mllib-local/pom.xml b/mllib-local/pom.xml
index 201446efb9abe..663f7fb0b010d 100644
--- a/mllib-local/pom.xml
+++ b/mllib-local/pom.xml
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <profile>
diff --git a/mllib/pom.xml b/mllib/pom.xml
index aad69742770a0..82f840b0fc269 100644
--- a/mllib/pom.xml
+++ b/mllib/pom.xml
@@ -113,6 +113,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <profile>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4f12085d044f8..181489b32264c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@
         <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
         <version>${project.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+        <version>${project.version}</version>
+        <type>test-jar</type>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.twitter</groupId>
         <artifactId>chill_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
diff --git a/repl/pom.xml b/repl/pom.xml
index 1baf1340cfb34..a256ae3b84183 100644
--- a/repl/pom.xml
+++ b/repl/pom.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
       <artifactId>xbean-asm5-shaded</artifactId>
diff --git a/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml b/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml
index 04b51dc92a4a8..f090d2427dc27 100644
--- a/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml
+++ b/resource-managers/yarn/pom.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/pom.xml b/sql/catalyst/pom.xml
index ba5b5c965f6dc..765c92b8d3b9e 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/pom.xml
+++ b/sql/catalyst/pom.xml
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-unsafe_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
diff --git a/sql/core/pom.xml b/sql/core/pom.xml
index 4178b0a1fcf1e..b8aa69809098e 100644
--- a/sql/core/pom.xml
+++ b/sql/core/pom.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
       <artifactId>parquet-column</artifactId>
diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml b/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml
index 7a6e966f960d8..9c879218ddc0d 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/pom.xml
@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>net.sf.jpam</groupId>
       <artifactId>jpam</artifactId>
diff --git a/sql/hive/pom.xml b/sql/hive/pom.xml
index af02d055505a9..9aedaf234ec19 100644
--- a/sql/hive/pom.xml
+++ b/sql/hive/pom.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 <!--
     <dependency>
diff --git a/streaming/pom.xml b/streaming/pom.xml
index 7168999898b13..de1be9c13e05f 100644
--- a/streaming/pom.xml
+++ b/streaming/pom.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,17 @@
       <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
+    <!--
+      This spark-tags test-dep is needed even though it isn't used in this module, otherwise testing-cmds that exclude
+      them will yield errors.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-tags_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <!-- Explicit listing of transitive deps that are shaded. Otherwise, odd compiler crashes. -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>