diff --git a/.circleci/config-2_1.yml b/.circleci/config-2_1.yml
index 7733fe7a8d..faa703a896 100644
--- a/.circleci/config-2_1.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config-2_1.yml
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ commands:
           if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
             cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
           fi
-          ant clean <<parameters.target>>
+          ant clean <<parameters.target>> -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ commands:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant <<parameters.target>> -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=<<parameters.classlistprefix>>
+          ant <<parameters.target>> -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=<<parameters.classlistprefix>> -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: <<parameters.no_output_timeout>>
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index b0515ea61d..1141a9c923 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
             cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
           fi
-          ant clean long-test
+          ant clean long-test -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2236,7 +2236,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES b/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES
index bdd0614b00..3ce70cd0bc 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml.HIGHRES
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
             cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
           fi
-          ant clean long-test
+          ant clean long-test -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2236,7 +2236,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES b/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES
index 9e8fa7615f..6f2272d422 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml.LOWRES
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
             cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
           fi
-          ant clean long-test
+          ant clean long-test -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2236,7 +2236,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml.MIDRES b/.circleci/config.yml.MIDRES
index dac7e89212..4d70e94832 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml.MIDRES
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml.MIDRES
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed
+          ant testclasslist -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=distributed -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -d ~/dtest_jars ]; then
             cp ~/dtest_jars/dtest* /tmp/cassandra/build/
           fi
-          ant clean long-test
+          ant clean long-test -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
@@ -2236,7 +2236,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ -z "$test_timeout" ]; then
             test_timeout=$(grep 'name="test.timeout"' build.xml | awk -F'"' '{print $4}')
           fi
-          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit
+          ant testclasslist-compression -Dtest.timeout="$test_timeout" -Dtest.classlistfile=/tmp/java_tests_${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX}_final.txt  -Dtest.classlistprefix=unit -Dno-build-test=true
         no_output_timeout: 15m
     - store_test_results:
         path: /tmp/cassandra/build/test/output/
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index ef684efcb9..f822fe72c5 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1068,7 +1068,23 @@
       </checksum>
     </target>
 
-  <target name="build-test" depends="jar,stress-build" description="Compile test classes" unless="no-build-test">
+  <!-- Wrapper of build-test without dependencies, so both that target and its dependencies are skipped if the property
+    no-build-test is true. This is meant to be used to run tests without actually building them, provided that they have
+    been built before. All test targets depend on this, so one can run them using the no-build-test property.
+    For example:
+
+    ant test -Dno-build-test=true
+    ant test -Dtest.name=StorageServiceServerTest -Dno-build-test=true
+    ant testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageServiceServerTest -Dno-build-test=true
+
+    The property is false by default, so if it's not specified the tests would be built with all their dependencies.
+    See CASSANDRA-16625 and CASSANDRA-18000 for further details.
+     -->
+  <target name="maybe-build-test" unless="no-build-test">
+    <antcall target="build-test"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="build-test" depends="jar,stress-build" description="Compile test classes">
     <javac
      debug="true"
      debuglevel="${debuglevel}"
@@ -1254,7 +1270,7 @@
       </fail>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testold" depends="build-test" description="Execute unit tests">
+  <target name="testold" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute unit tests">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.unit.src}" timeout="${test.timeout}">
       <jvmarg value="-Dlegacy-sstable-root=${test.data}/legacy-sstables"/>
       <jvmarg value="-Dinvalid-legacy-sstable-root=${test.data}/invalid-legacy-sstables"/>
@@ -1320,7 +1336,7 @@
     ant testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageServiceServerTest
     ant testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageServiceServerTest -Dtest.methods=testRegularMode,testGetAllRangesEmpty
   -->
-  <target name="testsome" depends="build-test" description="Execute specific unit tests" >
+  <target name="testsome" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute specific unit tests" >
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.unit.src}" timeout="${test.timeout}">
       <test unless:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}" methods="${test.methods}" outfile="build/test/output/TEST-${test.name}-${test.methods}"/>
       <test if:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}" outfile="build/test/output/TEST-${test.name}"/>
@@ -1337,7 +1353,7 @@
     ant long-testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ManyRowsTest
     ant long-testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ManyRowsTest -Dtest.methods=testLargeCount
   -->
-  <target name="long-testsome" depends="build-test" description="Execute specific long unit tests" >
+  <target name="long-testsome" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute specific long unit tests" >
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.long.src}" timeout="${test.long.timeout}">
       <test unless:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}" methods="${test.methods}"/>
       <test if:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}"/>
@@ -1350,13 +1366,13 @@
     ant burn-testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.LongBufferPoolTest
     ant burn-testsome -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.LongBufferPoolTest -Dtest.methods=testAllocate
   -->
-  <target name="burn-testsome" depends="build-test" description="Execute specific burn unit tests" >
+  <target name="burn-testsome" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute specific burn unit tests" >
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.burn.src}" timeout="${test.burn.timeout}">
       <test unless:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}" methods="${test.methods}"/>
       <test if:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}"/>
     </testmacro>
   </target>
-  <target name="test-compression" depends="build-test" description="Execute unit tests with sstable compression enabled">
+  <target name="test-compression" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute unit tests with sstable compression enabled">
     <property name="compressed_yaml" value="${build.test.dir}/cassandra.compressed.yaml"/>
     <concat destfile="${compressed_yaml}">
       <fileset file="${test.conf}/cassandra.yaml"/>
@@ -1370,39 +1386,39 @@
     <testhelper testdelegate="testlist-compression" />
   </target>
 
-  <target name="msg-ser-gen-test" depends="build-test" description="Generates message serializations">
+  <target name="msg-ser-gen-test" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Generates message serializations">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.unit.src}"
         timeout="${test.timeout}" filter="**/SerializationsTest.java">
       <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.test-serialization-writes=True"/>
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="msg-ser-test" depends="build-test" description="Tests message serializations">
+  <target name="msg-ser-test" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Tests message serializations">
       <testmacro inputdir="${test.unit.src}" timeout="${test.timeout}"
                filter="**/SerializationsTest.java"/>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="msg-ser-test-7" depends="build-test" description="Generates message serializations">
+  <target name="msg-ser-test-7" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Generates message serializations">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.unit.src}"
         timeout="${test.timeout}" filter="**/SerializationsTest.java">
       <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.version=0.7"/>
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="msg-ser-test-10" depends="build-test" description="Tests message serializations on 1.0 messages">
+  <target name="msg-ser-test-10" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Tests message serializations on 1.0 messages">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.unit.src}"
         timeout="${test.timeout}" filter="**/SerializationsTest.java">
       <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.version=1.0"/>
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="test-burn" depends="build-test" description="Execute functional tests">
+  <target name="test-burn" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute functional tests">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.burn.src}"
                timeout="${test.burn.timeout}">
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="long-test" depends="build-test" description="Execute functional tests">
+  <target name="long-test" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute functional tests">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.long.src}"
                timeout="${test.long.timeout}">
       <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.ring_delay_ms=1000"/>
@@ -1410,7 +1426,7 @@
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="cql-test" depends="build-test" description="Execute CQL tests">
+  <target name="cql-test" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute CQL tests">
     <sequential>
       <echo message="running CQL tests"/>
       <mkdir dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra"/>
@@ -1456,7 +1472,7 @@
       ant cql-test-some -Dtest.name=ListsTest
       ant cql-test-some -Dtest.name=ListsTest -Dtest.methods=testPrecisionTime_getNext_simple
     -->
-  <target name="cql-test-some" depends="build-test" description="Execute specific CQL tests" >
+  <target name="cql-test-some" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute specific CQL tests" >
     <sequential>
       <echo message="running ${test.methods} tests from ${test.name}"/>
       <mkdir dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra"/>
@@ -1571,7 +1587,7 @@
     </sequential>
   </macrodef>
 
-  <target name="test" depends="eclipse-warnings,build-test" description="Test Runner">
+  <target name="test" depends="eclipse-warnings,maybe-build-test" description="Test Runner">
     <path id="all-test-classes-path">
       <fileset dir="${test.unit.src}" includes="**/${test.name}.java" excludes="**/distributed/test/UpgradeTest*.java" />
     </path>
@@ -1591,7 +1607,7 @@
   <!-- run a list of tests as provided in -Dtest.classlistfile (or default of 'testnames.txt')
   The class list file should be one test class per line, with the path starting after test/unit
   e.g. org/apache/cassandra/hints/HintMessageTest.java -->
-  <target name="testclasslist" depends="build-test" description="Run tests given in file -Dtest.classlistfile (one-class-per-line, e.g. org/apache/cassandra/db/SomeTest.java)">
+  <target name="testclasslist" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Run tests given in file -Dtest.classlistfile (one-class-per-line, e.g. org/apache/cassandra/db/SomeTest.java)">
     <path id="all-test-classes-path">
       <fileset dir="${test.dir}/${test.classlistprefix}" includesfile="${test.classlistfile}"/>
     </path>
@@ -1599,7 +1615,7 @@
     <testhelper testdelegate="testlist"/>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testclasslist-compression" depends="build-test" description="Run tests given in file -Dtest.classlistfile (one-class-per-line, e.g. org/apache/cassandra/db/SomeTest.java)">
+  <target name="testclasslist-compression" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Run tests given in file -Dtest.classlistfile (one-class-per-line, e.g. org/apache/cassandra/db/SomeTest.java)">
       <path id="all-test-classes-path">
           <fileset dir="${test.dir}/${test.classlistprefix}" includesfile="${test.classlistfile}"/>
       </path>
@@ -1617,7 +1633,7 @@
       </jar>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="test-jvm-dtest" depends="build-test" description="Execute in-jvm dtests">
+  <target name="test-jvm-dtest" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute in-jvm dtests">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.distributed.src}" timeout="${test.distributed.timeout}" forkmode="once" showoutput="true" filter="**/test/*Test.java">
       <jvmarg value="-Dlogback.configurationFile=test/conf/logback-dtest.xml"/>
       <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.ring_delay_ms=10000"/>
@@ -1626,7 +1642,7 @@
     </testmacro>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="test-jvm-upgrade-dtest" depends="build-test" description="Execute in-jvm dtests">
+  <target name="test-jvm-upgrade-dtest" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute in-jvm dtests">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.distributed.src}" timeout="${test.distributed.timeout}" forkmode="once" showoutput="true" filter="**/upgrade/*Test.java">
       <jvmarg value="-Dlogback.configurationFile=test/conf/logback-dtest.xml"/>
       <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.ring_delay_ms=10000"/>
@@ -1640,7 +1656,7 @@
       ant test-jvm-dtest-some -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.distributed.test.ResourceLeakTest
       ant test-jvm-dtest-some -Dtest.name=org.apache.cassandra.distributed.test.ResourceLeakTest -Dtest.methods=looperTest
     -->
-  <target name="test-jvm-dtest-some" depends="build-test" description="Execute some in-jvm dtests">
+  <target name="test-jvm-dtest-some" depends="maybe-build-test" description="Execute some in-jvm dtests">
     <testmacro inputdir="${test.distributed.src}" timeout="${test.distributed.timeout}" forkmode="once" showoutput="true">
       <test unless:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}" methods="${test.methods}" outfile="build/test/output/TEST-${test.name}-${test.methods}"/>
       <test if:blank="${test.methods}" name="${test.name}" outfile="build/test/output/TEST-${test.name}"/>
@@ -1679,7 +1695,7 @@
   <!-- run arbitrary mains in tests, for example to run the long running memory tests with lots of memory pressure
       ant run-main -Dmainclass=org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.LongBufferPoolTest -Dvmargs="-Xmx30m -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit"
   -->
-  <target name="run-main" depends="build-test">
+  <target name="run-main" depends="maybe-build-test">
       <property name="mainclass" value="" />
       <property name="vmargs" value="" />
       <property name="args" value="" />