diff --git a/hadoop-assemblies/pom.xml b/hadoop-assemblies/pom.xml
index 02a67b492635f..849cadfce6f36 100644
--- a/hadoop-assemblies/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-assemblies/pom.xml
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@
   <name>Apache Hadoop Assemblies</name>
   <description>Apache Hadoop Assemblies</description>
 
-  <properties>
-    <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
-  </properties>
-
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/hadoop-build-tools/pom.xml b/hadoop-build-tools/pom.xml
index 13ef2d214340f..c9a16d6d3e1a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-build-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-build-tools/pom.xml
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@
   <description>Apache Hadoop Build Tools Project</description>
   <name>Apache Hadoop Build Tools</name>
 
-  <properties>
-    <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
-  </properties>
   <build>
     <resources>
       <resource>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index ba16ed9b34e3b..f0086331bd36e 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
     <!-- Set the Release year during release -->
     <release-year>2025</release-year>
 
-    <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
     <!--Whether to proceed to next module if any test failures exist-->
     <maven.test.failure.ignore>true</maven.test.failure.ignore>
     <maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>
@@ -193,13 +192,6 @@
     <maven-surefire-plugin.version>3.5.3</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
     <maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-surefire-report-plugin.version>
     <maven-failsafe-plugin.version>${maven-surefire-plugin.version}</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
-    <!--
-     Surefire option to not fail a build if -Dtest=NAME doesn't find a
-     test called NAME. This is needed when running integration tests through
-     failsafe, as setting -Dtest=none is the way to stop surefire
-     running all unit tests before the it.test option is picked up.
-    -->
-    <surefire.failIfNoSpecifiedTests>false</surefire.failIfNoSpecifiedTests>
     <!-- Flag to stop surefire from shortening test stacks  -->
     <trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ec4ae8939343a..e184c8396ff79 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -129,6 +129,14 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/x
     <shell-executable>bash</shell-executable>
 
     <leveldbjni.group>org.fusesource.leveldbjni</leveldbjni.group>
+
+    <!--
+     Surefire option to not fail a build if -Dtest=NAME doesn't find a
+     test called NAME. This is needed when running integration tests through
+     failsafe, as setting -Dtest=none is the way to stop surefire
+     running all unit tests before the it.test option is picked up.
+    -->
+    <surefire.failIfNoSpecifiedTests>false</surefire.failIfNoSpecifiedTests>
   </properties>
 
   <modules>