diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a62a5ecf..0c514fe9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -42,17 +42,21 @@
 
       <felix.bundle.plugin.version>3.0.1</felix.bundle.plugin.version>
       <felix.version>5.4.0</felix.version>
-      <hibernate.version>5.0.7.Final</hibernate.version>
+      <hibernate.version>5.2.0.Final</hibernate.version>
       <javassist.version>3.20.0-GA</javassist.version>
       <jndi.version>0.11.4.1</jndi.version>
       <maven.release.version>2.5.3</maven.release.version>
       <metrics.version>3.1.2</metrics.version>
       <simpleclient.version>0.0.14</simpleclient.version>
       <mockito.version>1.10.19</mockito.version>
-      <pax.exam.version>4.8.0</pax.exam.version>
-      <pax.url.version>2.4.5</pax.url.version>
-      <slf4j.version>1.7.16</slf4j.version>
-      <log4j.version>2.5</log4j.version>
+      <pax.exam.version>4.9.1</pax.exam.version>
+      <pax.url.version>2.4.7</pax.url.version>
+      <slf4j.version>1.7.21</slf4j.version>
+      <log4j.version>2.6.1</log4j.version>
+      <commons.csv.version>1.4</commons.csv.version>
+      <h2.version>1.4.192</h2.version>
+      <hamcrest.version>1.3</hamcrest.version>
+      <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
    </properties>
 
    <parent>
@@ -92,7 +96,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-csv</artifactId>
-         <version>1.2</version>
+         <version>${commons.csv.version}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
@@ -101,6 +105,24 @@
          <version>${mockito.version}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>junit</groupId>
+         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+         <version>${junit.version}</version>
+         <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+         <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
+         <version>${hamcrest.version}</version>
+         <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+         <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
+         <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId>
+         <version>${hamcrest.version}</version>
+         <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
          <groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
          <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
@@ -198,7 +220,7 @@
       <dependency>
          <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
          <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
-         <version>1.4.191</version>
+         <version>${h2.version}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
    </dependencies>
@@ -209,7 +231,7 @@
             <!-- Generate proxies -->
             <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
             <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.4.0</version>
+            <version>1.5.0</version>
             <executions>
                <execution>
                   <phase>compile</phase>
@@ -227,7 +249,7 @@
          <plugin>
             <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
             <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>0.7.5.201505241946</version>
+            <version>0.7.7.201606060606</version>
             <executions>
                <!-- Prepares the property pointing to the JaCoCo runtime agent which is passed as VM argument when Maven the Surefire plugin is executed. -->
                <execution>
@@ -356,7 +378,7 @@
             <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
-               <version>2.4</version>
+               <version>3.0.0</version>
                <configuration>
                   <!-- outputDirectory>/absolute/path/to/the/output/directory</outputDirectory>
                      <finalName>filename-of-generated-jar-file</finalName -->
@@ -404,7 +426,7 @@
                <plugin>
                   <groupId>org.eluder.coveralls</groupId>
                   <artifactId>coveralls-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                  <version>4.1.0</version>
+                  <version>4.2.0</version>
                   <executions>
                      <execution>
                         <id>coveralls</id>