diff --git a/test-perf/README.md b/test-perf/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c44fb8a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-perf/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+## run
+
+```
+mvn clean package -am -pl test-perf
+java -cp test-perf/target/benchmarks.jar com.arangodb.SerdeBench
+```
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diff --git a/test-perf/pom.xml b/test-perf/pom.xml
index b6e419ca7..21b1f775a 100644
--- a/test-perf/pom.xml
+++ b/test-perf/pom.xml
@@ -14,21 +14,71 @@
 
     <properties>
         <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
+        <jmh.version>1.37</jmh.version>
+        <uberjar.name>benchmarks</uberjar.name>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
             <artifactId>jmh-core</artifactId>
-            <version>1.37</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
+            <version>${jmh.version}</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.openjdk.jmh</groupId>
             <artifactId>jmh-generator-annprocess</artifactId>
-            <version>1.37</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
+            <version>${jmh.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
-</project>
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+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.2.1</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <finalName>${uberjar.name}</finalName>
+                            <transformers>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                                    <mainClass>org.openjdk.jmh.Main</mainClass>
+                                </transformer>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+                            </transformers>
+                            <filters>
+                                <filter>
+                                    <!--
+                                        Shading signed JARs will fail without this.
+                                        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/999489/invalid-signature-file-when-attempting-to-run-a-jar
+                                    -->
+                                    <artifact>*:*</artifact>
+                                    <excludes>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
+                                        <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
+                                    </excludes>
+                                </filter>
+                            </filters>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/test-perf/src/test/java/com/arangodb/SerdeBench.java b/test-perf/src/main/java/com/arangodb/SerdeBench.java
similarity index 89%
rename from test-perf/src/test/java/com/arangodb/SerdeBench.java
rename to test-perf/src/main/java/com/arangodb/SerdeBench.java
index ae3d90bc3..3577e96a0 100644
--- a/test-perf/src/test/java/com/arangodb/SerdeBench.java
+++ b/test-perf/src/main/java/com/arangodb/SerdeBench.java
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@
 import org.openjdk.jmh.runner.options.Options;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.runner.options.OptionsBuilder;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
@@ -108,11 +110,22 @@ public Data() {
             }
         }
 
-        private JsonNode readFile(String filename, ObjectMapper mapper) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
-            String str = new String(Files.readAllBytes(
-                    Paths.get(SerdeBench.class.getResource(filename).toURI())));
+        private JsonNode readFile(String filename, ObjectMapper mapper) throws IOException {
+            InputStream inputStream = SerdeBench.class.getResourceAsStream(filename);
+            String str = readFromInputStream(inputStream);
             return mapper.readTree(str);
         }
+
+        private String readFromInputStream(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
+            StringBuilder resultStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
+            try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream))) {
+                String line;
+                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
+                    resultStringBuilder.append(line).append("\n");
+                }
+            }
+            return resultStringBuilder.toString();
+        }
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) throws RunnerException, IOException {
diff --git a/test-perf/src/test/resources/api-docs.json b/test-perf/src/main/resources/api-docs.json
similarity index 100%
rename from test-perf/src/test/resources/api-docs.json
rename to test-perf/src/main/resources/api-docs.json
diff --git a/test-perf/src/test/resources/multi-docs.json b/test-perf/src/main/resources/multi-docs.json
similarity index 100%
rename from test-perf/src/test/resources/multi-docs.json
rename to test-perf/src/main/resources/multi-docs.json