diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml b/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml
index e23db8b52cc..a72623787b1 100644
--- a/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-starters/pom.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-actuator</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-parent</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-security</module>
+		<module>spring-boot-starter-test</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-web</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-starter-websocket</module>
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-test/.gitignore b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-test/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ea8c4bf7f35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-test/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/target
diff --git a/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-test/pom.xml b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-test/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a473f690a6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-test/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+		<artifactId>spring-boot-starters</artifactId>
+		<version>0.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
+	<packaging>jar</packaging>
+	<properties>
+		<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
+	</properties>
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>junit</groupId>
+			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
+			<artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+			<artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
+			<exclusions>
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
+					<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
+			</exclusions>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+</project>