diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 7184d7443e..b773f0fd3f 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1279,6 +1279,43 @@
     </copy>
   </target>
 
+  <!-- Run tests separately and report errors after and generate a junit report -->
+  <macrodef name="testhelper">
+    <attribute name="testdelegate"/>
+    <sequential>
+      <testhelper_ testdelegate="@{testdelegate}"/>
+      <fail message="Some test(s) failed.">
+        <condition>
+            <and>
+            <isset property="testfailed"/>
+            <not>
+              <isset property="ant.test.failure.ignore"/>
+            </not>
+          </and>
+        </condition>
+      </fail>
+    </sequential>
+  </macrodef>
+
+  <!-- Run a list of junit tasks but don't track errors or generate a report after
+       If a test fails the testfailed property will be set. All the tests are run using the testdelegate
+       macro that is specified as an attribute and they will be run sequentially in this ant process -->
+  <scriptdef name="testhelper_" language="javascript">
+    <attribute name="testdelegate"/>
+    <![CDATA[
+        sep = project.getProperty("path.separator");
+        all = project.getProperty("all-test-classes").split(sep);
+        var p = project.createTask('sequential');
+        for (i = 0; i < all.length; i++) {
+            if (all[i] == undefined) continue;
+            task = project.createTask( attributes.get("testdelegate") );
+            task.setDynamicAttribute( "test.file.list", "" + all[i]);
+            p.addTask(task);
+        }
+        p.perform();
+    ]]>
+  </scriptdef>
+
   <!-- Defines how to run a set of tests. If you change the defaults for attributes
        you should also update them in testmacro.,
        The two are split because the helper doesn't generate
@@ -1291,7 +1328,6 @@
     <attribute name="filter" default="**/${test.name}.java"/>
     <attribute name="exclude" default="" />
     <attribute name="filelist" default="" />
-    <attribute name="poffset" default="0"/>
     <attribute name="testtag" default=""/>
     <attribute name="usejacoco" default="no"/>
     <attribute name="showoutput" default="false"/>
@@ -1327,7 +1363,6 @@
         <jvmarg value="-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=0" />
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.memtable_row_overhead_computation_step=100"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.test.use_prepared=${cassandra.test.use_prepared}"/>
-        <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.test.offsetseed=@{poffset}"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.test.sstableformatdevelopment=true"/>
         <!-- The first time SecureRandom initializes can be slow if it blocks on /dev/random -->
         <jvmarg value="-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom" />
@@ -1354,19 +1389,11 @@
         </batchtest>
       </junit-timeout>
 
-      <condition property="fileSep" value=";">
-        <os family="windows"/>
-      </condition>
-      <condition property="fileSep" else=":">
-        <isset property="fileSep"/>
-      </condition>
-      <fail unless="fileSep">Failed to set File Separator. This shouldn't happen.</fail>
-
-      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/commitlog${fileSep}@{poffset}"/>
-      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/cdc_raw${fileSep}@{poffset}"/>
-      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/data${fileSep}@{poffset}"/>
-      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/saved_caches${fileSep}@{poffset}"/>
-      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/hints${fileSep}@{poffset}"/>
+      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/commitlog"/>
+      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/cdc_raw"/>
+      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/data"/>
+      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/saved_caches"/>
+      <delete quiet="true" failonerror="false" dir="${build.test.dir}/cassandra/hints"/>
     </sequential>
   </macrodef>
 
@@ -1392,7 +1419,6 @@
         <jvmarg value="-Dmigration-sstable-root=${test.data}/migration-sstables"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.ring_delay_ms=1000"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.tolerate_sstable_size=true"/>
-        <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.config.loader=org.apache.cassandra.OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.skip_sync=true" />
       </testmacrohelper>
     </sequential>
@@ -1417,7 +1443,6 @@
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.tolerate_sstable_size=true"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.config=file:///${compressed_yaml}"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.skip_sync=true" />
-        <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.config.loader=org.apache.cassandra.OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader"/>
       </testmacrohelper>
     </sequential>
   </macrodef>
@@ -1439,7 +1464,6 @@
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.tolerate_sstable_size=true"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.config=file:///${cdc_yaml}"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.skip_sync=true" />
-        <jvmarg value="-Dcassandra.config.loader=org.apache.cassandra.OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader"/>
       </testmacrohelper>
     </sequential>
   </macrodef>
@@ -1484,16 +1508,16 @@
       <fileset dir="${test.unit.src}" includes="**/${test.name}.java" />
       <fileset dir="${test.distributed.src}" includes="**/${test.name}.java" />
     </path>
-    <property name="test.file.list" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
-    <testlist-compression test.file.list="${test.file.list}"/>
+    <property name="all-test-classes" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
+    <testhelper testdelegate="testlist-compression" />
   </target>
 
   <target name="test-cdc" depends="build-test" description="Execute unit tests with change-data-capture enabled">
     <path id="all-test-classes-path">
       <fileset dir="${test.unit.src}" includes="**/${test.name}.java" />
     </path>
-    <property name="test.file.list" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
-    <testlist-cdc test.file.list="${test.file.list}"/>
+    <property name="all-test-classes" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
+    <testhelper testdelegate="testlist-cdc" />
   </target>
 
   <target name="msg-ser-gen-test" depends="build-test" description="Generates message serializations">
@@ -1709,13 +1733,12 @@
     <attribute name="filter" default="**/${test.name}.java"/>
     <attribute name="exclude" default="" />
     <attribute name="filelist" default="" />
-    <attribute name="poffset" default="0"/>
     <attribute name="testtag" default=""/>
 
     <sequential>
       <testmacrohelper inputdir="@{inputdir}" timeout="@{timeout}"
                        forkmode="@{forkmode}" filter="@{filter}"
-                       exclude="@{exclude}" filelist="@{filelist}" poffset="@{poffset}"
+                       exclude="@{exclude}" filelist="@{filelist}"
                        testtag="@{testtag}" showoutput="false" >
           <optjvmargs/>
       </testmacrohelper>
@@ -1736,8 +1759,8 @@
     <path id="all-test-classes-path">
       <fileset dir="${test.unit.src}" includes="**/${test.name}.java" excludes="**/distributed/test/UpgradeTest*.java" />
     </path>
-    <property name="test.file.list" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
-    <testlist test.file.list="${test.file.list}"/>
+    <property name="all-test-classes" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
+    <testhelper testdelegate="testlist"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="generate-test-report" description="Generates JUnit's HTML report from results already in build/output">
@@ -1756,24 +1779,24 @@
     <path id="all-test-classes-path">
       <fileset dir="${test.dir}/${test.classlistprefix}" includesfile="${test.classlistfile}"/>
     </path>
-    <property name="test.file.list" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
-    <testlist test.file.list="${test.file.list}"/>
+    <property name="all-test-classes" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
+    <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)">
       <path id="all-test-classes-path">
           <fileset dir="${test.dir}/${test.classlistprefix}" includesfile="${test.classlistfile}"/>
       </path>
-      <property name="test.file.list" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
-      <testlist-compression test.file.list="${test.file.list}"/>
+      <property name="all-test-classes" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
+      <testhelper testdelegate="testlist-compression"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="testclasslist-cdc" depends="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="${test.classlistfile}"/>
       </path>
-      <property name="test.file.list" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
-      <testlist-cdc test.file.list="${test.file.list}"/>
+      <property name="all-test-classes" refid="all-test-classes-path"/>
+      <testhelper testdelegate="testlist-cdc"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="dtest-jar" depends="build-test, build" description="Create dtest-compatible jar, including all dependencies">
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 0047f48e23..0000000000
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * <p/>
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * <p/>
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.cassandra;
-
-import org.apache.cassandra.config.Config;
-import org.apache.cassandra.config.YamlConfigurationLoader;
-import org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException;
-
-import java.io.File;
-
-
-public class OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader extends YamlConfigurationLoader
-{
-
-    static final String OFFSET_PROPERTY = "cassandra.test.offsetseed";
-    int offset = 0;
-
-    public OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader()
-    {
-        String offsetStr = System.getProperty(OFFSET_PROPERTY);
-
-        if (offsetStr == null)
-            throw new RuntimeException("offset property is not set: "+OFFSET_PROPERTY);
-
-        offset = Integer.valueOf(offsetStr);
-
-        assert offset >= 0;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public Config loadConfig() throws ConfigurationException
-    {
-        Config config = super.loadConfig();
-
-        String sep = File.pathSeparator;
-
-        config.rpc_port += offset;
-        config.native_transport_port += offset;
-        config.storage_port += offset;
-
-        config.commitlog_directory += sep + offset;
-        config.saved_caches_directory += sep + offset;
-        config.hints_directory += sep + offset;
-
-        config.cdc_raw_directory += sep + offset;
-
-        for (int i = 0; i < config.data_file_directories.length; i++)
-            config.data_file_directories[i] += sep + offset;
-
-        return config;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/config/DatabaseDescriptorRefTest.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/config/DatabaseDescriptorRefTest.java
index 6e865aed8a..1c07a7d88d 100644
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/config/DatabaseDescriptorRefTest.java
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/config/DatabaseDescriptorRefTest.java
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ public class DatabaseDescriptorRefTest
     "org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities$1",
     "org.apache.cassandra.utils.CloseableIterator",
     "org.apache.cassandra.utils.Pair",
-    "org.apache.cassandra.OffsetAwareConfigurationLoader",
     "org.apache.cassandra.ConsoleAppender",
     "org.apache.cassandra.ConsoleAppender$1",
     "org.apache.cassandra.LogbackStatusListener",