Your pom in project B needs to include this plugin:
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>test-jar</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin>
Then, you can access it from project A like this:
<dependency> <groupId>XYZ</groupId> <artifactId>B</artifactId> <version>${project.version}</version> <type>test-jar</type> <scope>test</scope> </dependency>
Changing ‘type’ to test-jar allows you to access test classes from that dependency.