diff --git a/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/GenerateOoziePropertiesMojoTest.java b/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/GenerateOoziePropertiesMojoTest.java
index 6f55828ef..c9c519189 100644
--- a/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/GenerateOoziePropertiesMojoTest.java
+++ b/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/GenerateOoziePropertiesMojoTest.java
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.maven.plugin.properties;
 
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
 import static eu.dnetlib.maven.plugin.properties.GenerateOoziePropertiesMojo.PROPERTY_NAME_SANDBOX_NAME;
 import static eu.dnetlib.maven.plugin.properties.GenerateOoziePropertiesMojo.PROPERTY_NAME_WF_SOURCE_DIR;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
-
-import org.junit.Before;
-import org.junit.Test;
+import static junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static junit.framework.Assert.assertNull;
 
 /**
  * @author mhorst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ public class GenerateOoziePropertiesMojoTest {
 
     private GenerateOoziePropertiesMojo mojo = new GenerateOoziePropertiesMojo();
     
-    @Before
+    @BeforeAll
     public void clearSystemProperties() {
         System.clearProperty(PROPERTY_NAME_SANDBOX_NAME);
         System.clearProperty(PROPERTY_NAME_WF_SOURCE_DIR);
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public class GenerateOoziePropertiesMojoTest {
         mojo.execute();
         
         // assert
-        assertNull(System.getProperty(PROPERTY_NAME_SANDBOX_NAME));
+       assertNull(System.getProperty(PROPERTY_NAME_SANDBOX_NAME));
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest.java b/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest.java
index 51d9575ff..bbf94f0f3 100644
--- a/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest.java
+++ b/dhp-build/dhp-build-properties-maven-plugin/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/maven/plugin/properties/WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest.java
@@ -1,49 +1,37 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.maven.plugin.properties;
 
-import static eu.dnetlib.maven.plugin.properties.WritePredefinedProjectProperties.PROPERTY_PREFIX_ENV;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn;
-
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
-import java.io.FileWriter;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Properties;
-
 import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
-import org.junit.Before;
-import org.junit.Rule;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
-import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 import org.mockito.Mock;
-import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;
+import org.mockito.junit.jupiter.MockitoExtension;
 
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import static eu.dnetlib.maven.plugin.properties.WritePredefinedProjectProperties.PROPERTY_PREFIX_ENV;
+import static junit.framework.Assert.*;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn;
 
 /**
  * @author mhorst
  *
  */
-@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
+@ExtendWith(MockitoExtension.class)
 public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
 
-    @Rule
-    public TemporaryFolder testFolder = new TemporaryFolder();
-    
     @Mock
     private MavenProject mavenProject;
     
     private WritePredefinedProjectProperties mojo;
 
-    @Before
-    public void init() {
+    @BeforeAll
+    public void init(@TempDir File testFolder) {
         mojo = new WritePredefinedProjectProperties();
-        mojo.outputFile = getPropertiesFileLocation();
+        mojo.outputFile = getPropertiesFileLocation(testFolder);
         mojo.project = mavenProject;
         doReturn(new Properties()).when(mavenProject).getProperties();
     }
@@ -82,14 +70,14 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     }
     
     @Test(expected=MojoExecutionException.class)
-    public void testExecuteWithProjectPropertiesAndInvalidOutputFile() throws Exception {
+    public void testExecuteWithProjectPropertiesAndInvalidOutputFile(@TempDir File testFolder) throws Exception {
         // given
         String key = "projectPropertyKey";
         String value = "projectPropertyValue";
         Properties projectProperties = new Properties();
         projectProperties.setProperty(key, value);
         doReturn(projectProperties).when(mavenProject).getProperties();
-        mojo.outputFile = testFolder.getRoot();
+        mojo.outputFile = testFolder;
         
         // execute
         mojo.execute();
@@ -144,7 +132,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     }
     
     @Test
-    public void testExecuteIncludingPropertyKeysFromFile() throws Exception {
+    public void testExecuteIncludingPropertyKeysFromFile(@TempDir File testFolder) throws Exception {
         // given
         String key = "projectPropertyKey";
         String value = "projectPropertyValue";
@@ -155,7 +143,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
         projectProperties.setProperty(includedKey, includedValue);
         doReturn(projectProperties).when(mavenProject).getProperties();
         
-        File includedPropertiesFile = new File(testFolder.getRoot(), "included.properties");
+        File includedPropertiesFile = new File(testFolder, "included.properties");
         Properties includedProperties = new Properties();
         includedProperties.setProperty(includedKey, "irrelevantValue");
         includedProperties.store(new FileWriter(includedPropertiesFile), null);
@@ -217,7 +205,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     }
     
     @Test
-    public void testExecuteIncludingPropertyKeysFromXmlFile() throws Exception {
+    public void testExecuteIncludingPropertyKeysFromXmlFile(@TempDir File testFolder) throws Exception {
         // given
         String key = "projectPropertyKey";
         String value = "projectPropertyValue";
@@ -228,7 +216,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
         projectProperties.setProperty(includedKey, includedValue);
         doReturn(projectProperties).when(mavenProject).getProperties();
         
-        File includedPropertiesFile = new File(testFolder.getRoot(), "included.xml");
+        File includedPropertiesFile = new File(testFolder, "included.xml");
         Properties includedProperties = new Properties();
         includedProperties.setProperty(includedKey, "irrelevantValue");
         includedProperties.storeToXML(new FileOutputStream(includedPropertiesFile), null);
@@ -247,7 +235,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     }
     
     @Test(expected=MojoExecutionException.class)
-    public void testExecuteIncludingPropertyKeysFromInvalidXmlFile() throws Exception {
+    public void testExecuteIncludingPropertyKeysFromInvalidXmlFile(@TempDir File testFolder) throws Exception {
         // given
         String key = "projectPropertyKey";
         String value = "projectPropertyValue";
@@ -258,7 +246,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
         projectProperties.setProperty(includedKey, includedValue);
         doReturn(projectProperties).when(mavenProject).getProperties();
         
-        File includedPropertiesFile = new File(testFolder.getRoot(), "included.xml");
+        File includedPropertiesFile = new File(testFolder, "included.xml");
         Properties includedProperties = new Properties();
         includedProperties.setProperty(includedKey, "irrelevantValue");
         includedProperties.store(new FileOutputStream(includedPropertiesFile), null);
@@ -294,7 +282,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     }
     
     @Test
-    public void testExecuteWithEnvironmentProperties() throws Exception {
+    public void testExecuteWithEnvironmentProperties(@TempDir File testFolder) throws Exception {
         // given
         mojo.setIncludeEnvironmentVariables(true);
         
@@ -303,7 +291,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
         
         // assert
         assertTrue(mojo.outputFile.exists());
-        Properties storedProperties = getStoredProperties();
+        Properties storedProperties = getStoredProperties(testFolder);
         assertTrue(storedProperties.size() > 0);
         for (Object currentKey : storedProperties.keySet()) {
             assertTrue(((String)currentKey).startsWith(PROPERTY_PREFIX_ENV));
@@ -330,7 +318,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     }
     
     @Test
-    public void testExecuteWithSystemPropertiesAndEscapeChars() throws Exception {
+    public void testExecuteWithSystemPropertiesAndEscapeChars(@TempDir File testFolder) throws Exception {
         // given
         String key = "systemPropertyKey ";
         String value = "systemPropertyValue";
@@ -344,7 +332,7 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
         
         // assert
         assertTrue(mojo.outputFile.exists());
-        Properties storedProperties = getStoredProperties();
+        Properties storedProperties = getStoredProperties(testFolder);
         assertTrue(storedProperties.size() > 0);
         assertFalse(storedProperties.containsKey(key));
         assertTrue(storedProperties.containsKey(key.trim()));
@@ -353,13 +341,13 @@ public class WritePredefinedProjectPropertiesTest {
     
     // ----------------------------------- PRIVATE -------------------------------------------
     
-    private File getPropertiesFileLocation() {
-        return new File(testFolder.getRoot(), "test.properties");
+    private File getPropertiesFileLocation(File testFolder) {
+        return new File(testFolder, "test.properties");
     }
     
-    private Properties getStoredProperties() throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
+    private Properties getStoredProperties(File testFolder) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
         Properties properties = new Properties();
-        properties.load(new FileInputStream(getPropertiesFileLocation()));
+        properties.load(new FileInputStream(getPropertiesFileLocation(testFolder)));
         return properties;
     }
 }
diff --git a/dhp-schemas/pom.xml b/dhp-schemas/pom.xml
index 8338f69e4..14881a222 100644
--- a/dhp-schemas/pom.xml
+++ b/dhp-schemas/pom.xml
@@ -36,12 +36,6 @@
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
-         <dependency>
-            <groupId>junit</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-            <version>${junit.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
             <artifactId>dhp-common</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1ae078128..6594943a8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -74,19 +74,28 @@
 
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
-			<groupId>junit</groupId>
-			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-			<version>${junit.version}</version>
+			<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+			<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
+			<version>${junit-jupiter.version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
 			<artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
-			<version>2.7.22</version>
+			<version>${mockito-core.version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
+			<artifactId>mockito-junit-jupiter</artifactId>
+			<version>${mockito-core.version}</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+
+
+
 
 	</dependencies>
 
@@ -397,7 +406,7 @@
 				<plugin>
 					<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 					<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-					<version>2.19.1</version>
+					<version>3.0.0-M4</version>
 					<configuration>
 						<redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>
 					</configuration>
@@ -505,7 +514,8 @@
 		<dhp.commons.lang.version>3.5</dhp.commons.lang.version>
 		<dhp.guava.version>11.0.2</dhp.guava.version>
 		<scala.version>2.11.12</scala.version>
-		<junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
+		<junit-jupiter.version>5.6.1</junit-jupiter.version>
+		<mockito-core.version>3.3.3</mockito-core.version>
 		<mongodb.driver.version>3.4.2</mongodb.driver.version>
 	</properties>
 </project>