diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8bd2da85d8f1f6bb6f2032c0a6ede3c3a8b8211e..b331bf5252ca5f84aa6ad61cf7aab171edeb257f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -136,12 +136,6 @@
             <version>4.11</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-    		<groupId>org.skyscreamer</groupId>
-    		<artifactId>jsonassert</artifactId>
-    		<version>1.2.3</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
    	</dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiBeans.java b/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiBeans.java
index dc12ec28de2e7f129a34f26d48357d701e917897..24a308850a3022f2cd113994cc814d1084d101e3 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiBeans.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiBeans.java
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;
-import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -257,7 +256,7 @@ public class TestGitLabApiBeans {
 		return (objectMapper.readValue(reader,  returnType));	
 	}
 	
-	private <T> boolean compareJson (T apiObject, String file) throws IOException, JSONException {
+	private <T> boolean compareJson (T apiObject, String file) throws IOException {
 		
 		InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(GitLabApi.class.getResourceAsStream(file + ".json"));
 		String objectJson = jacksonJson.marshal(apiObject);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiEvents.java b/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiEvents.java
index 9d58fb4f673d6dbefe0ef22042c8c79003c83804..3ed30e2a4bfef67cfb47b66b38063bfc19e35258 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiEvents.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/messners/gitlab/api/TestGitLabApiEvents.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
 import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
-import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ public class TestGitLabApiEvents {
 		return (objectMapper.readValue(reader,  returnType));	
 	}
 	
-	private <T> boolean compareJson (T apiObject, String file) throws IOException, JSONException {
+	private <T> boolean compareJson (T apiObject, String file) throws IOException {
 		
 		InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(GitLabApi.class.getResourceAsStream(file + ".json"));
 		String objectJson = jacksonJson.marshal(apiObject);