diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c6f59a7..a3d2a19 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -201,52 +201,6 @@
                 </plugins>
             </reporting>
         </profile>
-        <profile>
-            <!-- Create archives containing stand-alone test cases -->
-            <!-- e.g. mvn assembly:assembly -Ptest-distribution [-DskipTests] -->
-            <id>test-distribution</id>
-            <build>
-                <plugins>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <descriptors>
-                                <descriptor>src/assembly/test-distribution.xml</descriptor>
-                            </descriptors>
-                            <tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
-                        </configuration>
-                        <executions>
-                            <execution>
-                                <phase>package</phase>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>assembly</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </execution>
-                        </executions>
-                    </plugin>
-                    <plugin>
-                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <configuration>
-                            <archive>
-                                <manifest>
-                                    <addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
-                                    <addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
-                                </manifest>
-                            </archive>
-                        </configuration>
-                        <executions>
-                            <execution>
-                                <goals>
-                                    <goal>jar</goal>
-                                    <goal>test-jar</goal>
-                                </goals>
-                            </execution>
-                        </executions>
-                    </plugin>
-                </plugins>
-            </build>
-        </profile>
       <profile>
         <id>setup-checkout</id>
         <activation>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/test-distribution.xml b/src/main/assembly/test-distribution.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ce79336..0000000
--- a/src/main/assembly/test-distribution.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-<!--
- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
--->
-<assembly>
-    <id>test</id>
-    <formats>
-        <format>tar.gz</format>
-        <format>zip</format>
-    </formats>
-    <baseDirectory></baseDirectory>
-    <fileSets>
-        <fileSet>
-            <includes>
-                <include>LICENSE.txt</include>
-                <include>NOTICE.txt</include>
-            </includes>
-        </fileSet>
-        <fileSet>
-            <directory>src/test/bin</directory>
-            <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
-            <includes>
-                <include>testme.bat</include>
-                <include>testme.dcl</include>
-            </includes>
-            <filtered>true</filtered>
-        </fileSet>
-        <fileSet>
-            <directory>src/test/scripts</directory>
-        </fileSet>
-        <fileSet>
-            <directory>target</directory>
-            <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
-            <includes>
-                <include>${artifact.artifactId}-${artifact.version}.jar</include>
-                <include>${artifact.artifactId}-${artifact.version}-tests.jar</include>
-            </includes>
-        </fileSet>
-    </fileSets>
-    <files>
-        <file>
-            <source>src/test/bin/testme.sh</source>
-            <fileMode>775</fileMode>
-            <filtered>true</filtered>
-        </file>
-    </files>
-    <dependencySets>
-        <dependencySet>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-            <includes>
-                <include>junit:junit</include>
-            </includes>
-            <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
-        </dependencySet>
-    </dependencySets>
-</assembly>