diff --git a/jdbc/pom.xml b/jdbc/pom.xml
index de415c49..b09e1aa1 100644
--- a/jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -1,45 +1,51 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!-- 
 Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
 
 Licensed 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. See accompanying
 LICENSE file.
 -->
 
 <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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
     <artifactId>binding-parent</artifactId>
     <version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
   <artifactId>jdbc-binding</artifactId>
   <name>JDBC DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
       <artifactId>openjpa-jdbc</artifactId>
       <version>${openjpa.jdbc.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
       <artifactId>core</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>4.12</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/jdbc/src/test/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/JdbcDBClientTest.java b/jdbc/src/test/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/JdbcDBClientTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..92b91e10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jdbc/src/test/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/JdbcDBClientTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package com.yahoo.ycsb.db;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Created by kruthar on 11/2/15.
+ */
+public class JdbcDBClientTest {
+    @Test
+    public void insertTest() {
+        assertTrue(true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void updateTest() {
+        assertTrue(true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void readTest() {
+        assertTrue(true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void deleteTest() {
+        assertTrue(true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void scanTest() {
+        assertTrue(true);
+    }
+}