The Maven Plugin Testing contains the necessary modules to be able to test Maven Plugins.
'org.apache.maven.plugin-testing:maven-test-tools:1.2'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-testing</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-test-tools</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="org.apache.maven.plugin-testing" name="maven-test-tools" rev="1.2"/>
"org.apache.maven.plugin-testing", "maven-test-tools", "1.2"