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@@ -217,9 +217,8 @@ For help in setting up IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse for Spark development, and troub
 Tests are run by default via the [ScalaTest Maven plugin](http://www.scalatest.org/user_guide/using_the_scalatest_maven_plugin).
 Note that tests should not be run as root or an admin user.
 
-Some of the tests require Spark to be packaged first, so always run `mvn package` with `-DskipTests` the first time.  The following is an example of a correct (build, test) sequence:
+The following is an example of a command to run the tests:
 
-    ./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -DskipTests -Phive -Phive-thriftserver clean package
     ./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver test
 
 The ScalaTest plugin also supports running only a specific Scala test suite as follows:
@@ -233,9 +232,8 @@ or a Java test:
 
 ## Testing with SBT
 
-Some of the tests require Spark to be packaged first, so always run `build/sbt package` the first time.  The following is an example of a correct (build, test) sequence:
+The following is an example of a command to run the tests:
 
-    ./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver package
     ./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver test
 
 To run only a specific test suite as follows: