diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 90e42ab..be49778 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@
     <scoverage.version>1.4.11</scoverage.version>
     <sbt-compiler.version>1.0.0</sbt-compiler.version>
     <jacoco.version>0.8.8</jacoco.version>
+    <!-- Default to redirecting test logs
+    This only applies to the java tests, it's not obvious how get scalatest to do this. -->
+    <test.output.tofile>true</test.output.tofile>
   </properties>
   <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml b/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml
index 10a9fd2..ace0def 100644
--- a/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml
@@ -521,6 +521,22 @@
               </execution>
             </executions>
           </plugin>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+            <configuration>
+              <redirectTestOutputToFile>${test.output.tofile}</redirectTestOutputToFile>
+              <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
+              <testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>
+            </configuration>
+            <dependencies>
+              <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+                <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
+                <version>${surefire.version}</version>
+              </dependency>
+            </dependencies>
+          </plugin>
         </plugins>
       </build>
     </profile>