diff --git a/surefire-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/api/report/LegacyPojoStackTraceWriter.java b/surefire-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/api/report/LegacyPojoStackTraceWriter.java
index 21466f41b4..5f01ee56c7 100644
--- a/surefire-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/api/report/LegacyPojoStackTraceWriter.java
+++ b/surefire-api/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/api/report/LegacyPojoStackTraceWriter.java
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 
-import org.apache.maven.surefire.api.util.internal.StringUtils;
-
 import static org.apache.maven.surefire.shared.utils.StringUtils.isNotEmpty;
 
 /**
@@ -54,7 +52,7 @@ public String writeTraceToString() {
             if (isMultiLineExceptionMessage(t)) {
                 // SUREFIRE-986
                 String exc = t.getClass().getName() + ": ";
-                if (StringUtils.startsWith(builder, exc)) {
+                if (builder.indexOf(exc) == 0) {
                     builder.insert(exc.length(), '\n');
                 }
             }
@@ -105,7 +103,7 @@ public String writeTrimmedTraceToString() {
 
         String marker = "at " + testClass + "." + testMethod;
 
-        String[] lines = StringUtils.split(text, "\n");
+        String[] lines = text.split("\n");
         int lastLine = lines.length - 1;
         int causedByLine = -1;
         // skip first
diff --git a/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/JUnit47RedirectOutputIT.java b/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/JUnit47RedirectOutputIT.java
index 6e7b5e30f0..15d3400e78 100644
--- a/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/JUnit47RedirectOutputIT.java
+++ b/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/JUnit47RedirectOutputIT.java
@@ -18,14 +18,13 @@
  */
 package org.apache.maven.surefire.its;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.surefire.its.fixture.OutputValidator;
 import org.apache.maven.surefire.its.fixture.SurefireJUnit4IntegrationTestCase;
 import org.apache.maven.surefire.its.fixture.SurefireLauncher;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 /**
  *
@@ -46,14 +45,14 @@ public void testClassesParallel() {
     }
 
     private void checkReports(OutputValidator validator) {
-        String report = StringUtils.trimToNull(validator
+        String report = validator
                 .getSurefireReportsFile("junit47ConsoleOutput.Test1-output.txt")
-                .readFileToString());
-        assertNotNull(report);
-        String report2 = StringUtils.trimToNull(validator
+                .readFileToString();
+        assertTrue(report.isEmpty());
+        String report2 = validator
                 .getSurefireReportsFile("junit47ConsoleOutput.Test2-output.txt")
-                .readFileToString());
-        assertNotNull(report2);
+                .readFileToString();
+        assertTrue(report2.isEmpty());
         assertFalse(validator
                 .getSurefireReportsFile("junit47ConsoleOutput.Test3-output.txt")
                 .exists());