I first tried this out from distribution/zip, maybe a missing dependency?

:distribution:zip:integTest#clean UP-TO-DATE
:distribution:zip:integTest#extract

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Cannot expand ZIP '/Users/rmuir/workspace/elasticsearch/distribution/zip/build/distributions/elasticsearch-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.zip' as it does not exist.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

I'm trying from the top-level build now.

There are also quite a few things missing (just from looking at directory structure) that integ tests did before:

1. using a random tmpdir not rooted under ES to ensure no bogus CWD dependencies: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/2.x/dev-tools/src/main/resources/ant/integration-tests.xml#L23-L26
2. using a space in ES run directory to ensure no bogus URL/file handling:
   https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/2.x/pom.xml#L121
3. using a space for any plugin dependencies to check for the same in pluginmanager:
   https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/2.x/pom.xml#L122

While these may seem "unimportant", I do think they are pretty common problems and these are easy tricks to prevent issues later.

Works for me. I left some comments, all can be followups.

Thanks for the notes @rmuir! I created a follow up for the issues you mentioned: #14464

And I fixed the dependency issue. Running the tests within distribution/zip and distribution/tar now works.

+1

I also added the environment variables back in this PR.