During November 2024, Mihir Gune focused on improving the reliability of the apache/maven-dependency-plugin test suite by addressing persistent flaky tests. He enhanced the stability of TestTreeMojo by introducing deterministic sorting of child nodes and replacing wildcard imports with explicit ones, clarifying dependencies and reducing unpredictable behavior. For TestCopyDependenciesMojo, Mihir strengthened assertions to verify that all expected dependencies were present, rather than relying on exact string matches. These targeted changes, implemented in Java with an emphasis on unit testing, reduced continuous integration noise and minimized unnecessary test reruns, resulting in faster pull request validation and a more dependable release process.