src/test/hadoop-site.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="nutch-conf.xsl"?>

<!-- Values used when running unit tests.  This is mostly empty, to -->
<!-- use of the default values, overriding the potentially -->
<!-- user-editted hadoop-site.xml in the conf/ directory.  -->

<configuration>

<property>
  <name>mapred.local.dir</name>
  <value>build/test/mapred/local</value>
</property>

<property>
  <name>mapred.system.dir</name>
  <value>build/test/mapred/system</value>
</property>

</configuration>