diff --git a/sdk/pom.xml b/sdk/pom.xml
index 40d9c5cf98..11b836b3fd 100644
--- a/sdk/pom.xml
+++ b/sdk/pom.xml
@@ -141,6 +141,33 @@
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
       </plugin>
 
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>InProcessPipelineRunnerTests</id>
+            <phase>integration-test</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>test</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <groups>com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.testing.RunnableOnService</groups>
+              <parallel>none</parallel>
+              <failIfNoTests>true</failIfNoTests>
+              <systemPropertyVariables>
+                <runIntegrationTestOnService>false</runIntegrationTestOnService>
+                <dataflowOptions>
+                  [
+                  "--runner=InProcessPipelineRunner"
+                  ]
+                </dataflowOptions>
+              </systemPropertyVariables>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/sdk/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/testing/DataflowAssertTest.java b/sdk/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/testing/DataflowAssertTest.java
index 2cd3014b11..0380bb6be8 100644
--- a/sdk/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/testing/DataflowAssertTest.java
+++ b/sdk/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/testing/DataflowAssertTest.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.coders.AtomicCoder;
 import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.coders.CoderException;
 import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.DirectPipelineRunner;
+import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.inprocess.InProcessPipelineRunner;
 import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.transforms.Create;
 import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.transforms.SerializableFunction;
 import com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.util.common.ElementByteSizeObserver;
@@ -302,7 +303,8 @@ public void testContainsInAnyOrderFalse() throws Exception {
   private static Throwable runExpectingAssertionFailure(Pipeline pipeline) {
     // Even though this test will succeed or fail adequately whether local or on the service,
     // it results in a different exception depending on the runner.
-    if (pipeline.getRunner() instanceof DirectPipelineRunner) {
+    if (pipeline.getRunner() instanceof DirectPipelineRunner
+        || pipeline.getRunner() instanceof InProcessPipelineRunner) {
       // We cannot use thrown.expect(AssertionError.class) because the AssertionError
       // is first caught by JUnit and causes a test failure.
       try {