[MNG-7837] Add IT for project element in pom (#277)

diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng7837ProjectElementInPomTest.java b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng7837ProjectElementInPomTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0696cce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng7837ProjectElementInPomTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
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+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.apache.maven.shared.verifier.Verifier;
+import org.apache.maven.shared.verifier.util.ResourceExtractor;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class MavenITmng7837ProjectElementInPomTest extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase {
+
+    protected MavenITmng7837ProjectElementInPomTest() {
+        // Broken in 4.0.0-alpha-7
+        super("(,4.0.0-alpha-7),(4.0.0-alpha-7,)");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testProjectElementInPom() throws Exception {
+        File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources(getClass(), "/mng-7837-project-element-in-pom");
+
+        final Verifier pluginVerifier = newVerifier(testDir.getPath());
+        pluginVerifier.addCliArgument("validate");
+        pluginVerifier.addCliArgument("-V");
+        pluginVerifier.execute();
+        pluginVerifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/TestSuiteOrdering.java b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/TestSuiteOrdering.java
index 05800b4..f544ef4 100644
--- a/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/TestSuiteOrdering.java
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/TestSuiteOrdering.java
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@
          * the tests are to finishing. Newer tests are also more likely to fail, so this is
          * a fail fast technique as well.
          */
+        suite.addTestSuite(MavenITmng7837ProjectElementInPomTest.class);
         suite.addTestSuite(MavenITmng7804PluginExecutionOrderTest.class);
         suite.addTestSuite(MavenITmng7836AlternativePomSyntaxTest.class);
         suite.addTestSuite(MavenITmng7891ConfigurationForExtensionsTest.class);
diff --git a/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7837-project-element-in-pom/pom.xml b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7837-project-element-in-pom/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad7fc7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-7837-project-element-in-pom/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>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng7837</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.4.0</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <project>
+            <groupId>com.flowlogix</groupId>
+            <artifactId>flowlogix</artifactId>
+          </project>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>