testUtil = new HBaseTestingUtility(startingConf);
testUtil.startMiniCluster();

final String aJarResourcePath = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
            .getResource("abc/a-1.0.jar").getPath();        final FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(configuration);
        final Path pathToArtifacts = new Path("/program-runtime/a-artifacts");
        fs.mkdirs(pathToArtifacts);