diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/IntegrationUtils.java b/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/IntegrationUtils.java
index 8a930ea91..c38426fa7 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/IntegrationUtils.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/IntegrationUtils.java
@@ -24,21 +24,6 @@
 import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 
 public class IntegrationUtils {
-  public static final String LOCAL_ARGS = 
-      "-D fs.defaultFS=file:/// " +
-      "-D mapreduce.framework.name=local " +
-      "-D mapreduce.jobtracker.address=local " +
-      "-D mapreduce.cluster.local.dir=/tmp/mapred/local " +
-      "-D mapreduce.cluster.temp.dir=/tmp/mapred/temp " +
-      "-D mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir=/tmp/mapred/staging " +
-      "-D mapreduce.jobtracker.system.dir=/tmp/mapred/system";
-
-  public static final String D_JT = "-Dmapred.job.tracker=bespin00.umiacs.umd.edu:8021";
-  public static final String D_NN = "-Dfs.defaultFS=hdfs://bespinrm.umiacs.umd.edu:8020";
-
-  public static final String D_JT_LOCAL = "-D mapred.job.tracker=local";
-  public static final String D_NN_LOCAL = "-D fs.default.name=file:///";
-
   public static String getJar(String path, final String prefix) {
     File[] arr = new File(path).listFiles(new FilenameFilter() {
       @Override
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/bigram/BigramRelativeFrequencyIT.java b/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/bigram/BigramRelativeFrequencyIT.java
index 6def9247a..0611052cb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/bigram/BigramRelativeFrequencyIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/bigram/BigramRelativeFrequencyIT.java
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ public void testBigramRelativeFrequencyBase() throws Exception {
 
     assertTrue(fs.exists(collectionPath));
 
-    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop jar", IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
+    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop --config src/test/resources/hadoop-local-conf/ jar",
+        IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
         edu.umd.cloud9.example.bigram.BigramRelativeFrequency.class.getCanonicalName(),
-        IntegrationUtils.LOCAL_ARGS,
         "-input", collectionPath.toString(),
         "-output", tmpPrefix + "-base",
         "-numReducers", "1"};
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ public void testBigramRelativeFrequencyJson() throws Exception {
 
     assertTrue(fs.exists(collectionPath));
 
-    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop jar", IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
+    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop --config src/test/resources/hadoop-local-conf/ jar",
+        IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
         edu.umd.cloud9.example.bigram.BigramRelativeFrequencyJson.class.getCanonicalName(),
-        IntegrationUtils.LOCAL_ARGS,
         "-input", collectionPath.toString(),
         "-output", tmpPrefix + "-json",
         "-numReducers", "1"};
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@ public void testBigramRelativeFrequencyTuple() throws Exception {
 
     assertTrue(fs.exists(collectionPath));
 
-    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop jar", IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
+    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop --config src/test/resources/hadoop-local-conf/ jar",
+        IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
         edu.umd.cloud9.example.bigram.BigramRelativeFrequencyTuple.class.getCanonicalName(),
-        IntegrationUtils.LOCAL_ARGS,
         "-input", collectionPath.toString(),
         "-output", tmpPrefix + "-tuple",
         "-numReducers", "1"};
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/ir/InvertedIndexingIT.java b/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/ir/InvertedIndexingIT.java
index ef6f46337..79139c8e7 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/ir/InvertedIndexingIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/umd/cloud9/integration/example/ir/InvertedIndexingIT.java
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ public void testInvertedIndexing() throws Exception {
 
     assertTrue(fs.exists(collectionPath));
 
-    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop jar", IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
+    String[] args = new String[] { "hadoop --config src/test/resources/hadoop-local-conf/ jar",
+        IntegrationUtils.getJar("target", "cloud9"),
         edu.umd.cloud9.example.ir.BuildInvertedIndex.class.getCanonicalName(),
-        IntegrationUtils.LOCAL_ARGS,
         "-input", collectionPath.toString(),
         "-output", tmpPrefix,
         "-numReducers", "1"};