diff --git a/.classpath b/.classpath
index 0b3246d..30e63f7 100644
--- a/.classpath
+++ b/.classpath
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 <classpath>
 	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/java"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
diff --git a/src/test/resources/hbase-site.xml b/src/test/resources/hbase-site.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..641ef67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/hbase-site.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
+<!--
+/**
+ * Copyright 2007 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+-->
+<configuration>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.regionserver.msginterval</name>
+    <value>1000</value>
+    <description>Interval between messages from the RegionServer to HMaster
+    in milliseconds.  Default is 15. Set this value low if you want unit
+    tests to be responsive.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.client.pause</name>
+    <value>5000</value>
+    <description>General client pause value.  Used mostly as value to wait
+    before running a retry of a failed get, region lookup, etc.</description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.client.retries.number</name>
+    <value>4</value>
+    <description>Maximum retries.  Used as maximum for all retryable
+    operations such as fetching of the root region from root region
+    server, getting a cell's value, starting a row update, etc.
+    Default: 10.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.server.thread.wakefrequency</name>
+    <value>1000</value>
+    <description>Time to sleep in between searches for work (in milliseconds).
+    Used as sleep interval by service threads such as META scanner and log roller.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.regionserver.handler.count</name>
+    <value>5</value>
+    <description>Count of RPC Server instances spun up on RegionServers
+    Same property is used by the HMaster for count of master handlers.
+    Default is 10.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.master.info.port</name>
+    <value>-1</value>
+    <description>The port for the hbase master web UI
+    Set to -1 if you do not want the info server to run.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.regionserver.info.port</name>
+    <value>-1</value>
+    <description>The port for the hbase regionserver web UI
+    Set to -1 if you do not want the info server to run.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.regionserver.info.port.auto</name>
+    <value>true</value>
+    <description>Info server auto port bind. Enables automatic port
+    search if hbase.regionserver.info.port is already in use.
+    Enabled for testing to run multiple tests on one machine.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.master.lease.thread.wakefrequency</name>
+    <value>3000</value>
+    <description>The interval between checks for expired region server leases.
+    This value has been reduced due to the other reduced values above so that
+    the master will notice a dead region server sooner. The default is 15 seconds.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.regionserver.optionalcacheflushinterval</name>
+    <value>1000</value>
+    <description>
+    Amount of time to wait since the last time a region was flushed before
+    invoking an optional cache flush. Default 60,000.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.regionserver.safemode</name>
+    <value>false</value>
+    <description>
+    Turn on/off safe mode in region server. Always on for production, always off
+    for tests.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.hregion.max.filesize</name>
+    <value>67108864</value>
+    <description>
+    Maximum desired file size for an HRegion.  If filesize exceeds
+    value + (value / 2), the HRegion is split in two.  Default: 256M.
+
+    Keep the maximum filesize small so we split more often in tests.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hadoop.log.dir</name>
+    <value>${user.dir}/../logs</value>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort</name>
+    <value>21818</value>
+    <description>Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg.
+    The port at which the clients will connect.
+    </description>
+  </property>
+</configuration>