diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml b/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml
index 60977cc0..0d143864 100644
--- a/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/pom.xml
@@ -65,12 +65,6 @@
             <groupId>org.messaginghub</groupId>
             <artifactId>pooled-jms</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerControllerTest.java b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerControllerTest.java
index f8ec86ac..6e9fb9b5 100644
--- a/alfresco-transformer-base/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerControllerTest.java
+++ b/alfresco-transformer-base/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transformer/AbstractTransformerControllerTest.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
  */
 package org.alfresco.transformer;
 
+import static java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING;;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
@@ -44,11 +45,11 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -64,7 +65,6 @@ import org.alfresco.transform.client.model.config.Transformer;
 import org.alfresco.transform.client.registry.TransformServiceRegistry;
 import org.alfresco.transformer.clients.AlfrescoSharedFileStoreClient;
 import org.alfresco.transformer.probes.ProbeTestTransform;
-import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractTransformerControllerTest
 
     protected File getTestFile(String testFilename, boolean required) throws IOException
     {
-        File testFile;
+        File testFile = null;
         ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
         URL testFileUrl = classLoader.getResource(testFilename);
         if (required && testFileUrl == null)
@@ -178,40 +178,29 @@ public abstract class AbstractTransformerControllerTest
             throw new IOException("The test file " + testFilename +
                     " does not exist in the resources directory");
         }
-        try 
+        if(testFileUrl!=null)
         {
-            testFile = folder.newFile(testFilename);
-        } 
-        catch (IOException e) 
-        {
-            if(e.getMessage().contains("a file with the name \'" + testFilename + "\' already exists in the test folder"))
+            try 
             {
-                testFile = new File(URLDecoder.decode(folder.getRoot().getPath()+ File.separator + testFilename, "UTF-8"));
-            }
-            else
+                testFile = folder.newFile(testFilename);
+                Files.copy(classLoader.getResourceAsStream(testFilename), testFile.toPath(),REPLACE_EXISTING);
+            } 
+            catch (IOException e) 
             {
-                throw e;
+                if(e.getMessage().contains("a file with the name \'" + testFilename + "\' already exists in the test folder"))
+                {
+                    testFile = new File(URLDecoder.decode(folder.getRoot().getPath()+ File.separator + testFilename, "UTF-8"));
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    throw e;
+                }
             }
         }
-        
-        InputStream inputStream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(testFilename);
 
-        FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(inputStream, testFile);
         return testFileUrl == null ? null : testFile;
     }
 
-    protected File getTestFileOrig(String testFilename, boolean required) throws IOException
-    {
-        ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
-        URL testFileUrl = classLoader.getResource(testFilename);
-        if (required && testFileUrl == null)
-        {
-            throw new IOException("The test file " + testFilename +
-                    " does not exist in the resources directory");
-        }
-        return testFileUrl == null ? null : new File(URLDecoder.decode(testFileUrl.getPath(), "UTF-8"));
-    }
-
     protected MockHttpServletRequestBuilder mockMvcRequest(String url, MockMultipartFile sourceFile,
         String... params)
     {