diff --git a/pmd-java/pom.xml b/pmd-java/pom.xml
index abbf5c6902..e27629c9be 100644
--- a/pmd-java/pom.xml
+++ b/pmd-java/pom.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
             <artifactId>pmd</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pmd-test</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
             <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
diff --git a/pmd-test/pom.xml b/pmd-test/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71d066955c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pmd-test/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>pmd-test</artifactId>
+    <name>PMD Test Framework</name>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+        <artifactId>pmd-aggregate</artifactId>
+        <version>5.1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sourceforge.pmd</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pmd</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/AbstractTokenizerTest.java b/pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/AbstractTokenizerTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/AbstractTokenizerTest.java
rename to pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/AbstractTokenizerTest.java
diff --git a/pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/PMDTestRunner.java b/pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/PMDTestRunner.java
similarity index 100%
rename from pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/PMDTestRunner.java
rename to pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/PMDTestRunner.java
diff --git a/pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/RuleTst.java b/pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/RuleTst.java
similarity index 100%
rename from pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/RuleTst.java
rename to pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/RuleTst.java
diff --git a/pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/SimpleAggregatorTst.java b/pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/SimpleAggregatorTst.java
similarity index 100%
rename from pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/SimpleAggregatorTst.java
rename to pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/SimpleAggregatorTst.java
diff --git a/pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/StreamUtil.java b/pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/StreamUtil.java
similarity index 100%
rename from pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/StreamUtil.java
rename to pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/StreamUtil.java
diff --git a/pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/TestDescriptor.java b/pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/TestDescriptor.java
similarity index 100%
rename from pmd/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/TestDescriptor.java
rename to pmd-test/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/testframework/TestDescriptor.java
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 578ad815c5..0d8f40da64 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@
 
     <modules>
         <module>pmd</module>
+        <module>pmd-test</module>
         <module>pmd-java</module>
         <module>pmd-dist</module>
     </modules>