diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 88dae01..3850998 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ under the License.
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-plugins</artifactId>
-    <version>43</version>
+    <version>44</version>
     <relativePath />
   </parent>
 
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ under the License.
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
+      <version>${version.maven-plugin-tools}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java
index 1374881..bd5db2e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  * @author <a href="mailto:aramirez@apache.org">Allan Ramirez</a>
  */
 public class DeployFileMojoTest extends AbstractMojoTestCase {
-    private final String LOCAL_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/local-repo";
+    private static final String LOCAL_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/local-repo";
 
     private List<String> expectedFiles;
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoUnitTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoUnitTest.java
index c368b36..2bd39c9 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoUnitTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoUnitTest.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public void tearDown() {
     static class MockDeployFileMojo extends DeployFileMojo {
         private Model model;
 
-        public MockDeployFileMojo(Model model) {
+        MockDeployFileMojo(Model model) {
             this.model = model;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployMojoTest.java
index ce128e4..64517bf 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployMojoTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployMojoTest.java
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ public class DeployMojoTest extends AbstractMojoTestCase {
 
     private File localRepo;
 
-    private final String LOCAL_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/local-repo";
+    private static final String LOCAL_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/local-repo";
 
-    private final String REMOTE_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/remote-repo";
+    private static final String REMOTE_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/remote-repo";
 
     DeployArtifactStub artifact;
 
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ public void testNonPomDeployWithAttachedArtifactsOnly() throws Exception {
     }
 
     @Ignore("SCP is not part of Maven3 distribution. Aether handles transport extensions.")
-    public void _testBasicDeployWithScpAsProtocol() throws Exception {
+    public void basicDeployWithScpAsProtocol() throws Exception {
         String originalUserHome = System.getProperty("user.home");
 
         // FIX THE DAMN user.home BEFORE YOU DELETE IT!!!