diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c03a77d73d..d837e63ee4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.jcraft</groupId>
         <artifactId>jzlib</artifactId>
-          <version>1.1.2</version>
+        <version>1.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.ning</groupId>
@@ -710,6 +710,14 @@
         <version>1.8.1</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
+
+      <!-- Test dependency for generating a compressed heap dump file -->
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.tukaani</groupId>
+        <artifactId>xz</artifactId>
+        <version>1.5</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
 
diff --git a/testsuite/pom.xml b/testsuite/pom.xml
index 73791e6c13..5c137507b9 100644
--- a/testsuite/pom.xml
+++ b/testsuite/pom.xml
@@ -30,29 +30,9 @@
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>easymockclassextension</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.jmock</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jmock-junit4</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-      <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-        <artifactId>netty-transport-sctp</artifactId>
-        <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+      <artifactId>netty-transport-sctp</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
@@ -75,6 +55,12 @@
       <classifier>${os.detected.classifier}</classifier>
       <optional>true</optional>
     </dependency>
+
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.tukaani</groupId>
+      <artifactId>xz</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/util/TestUtils.java b/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/util/TestUtils.java
index b326417a2a..6075c8c7fc 100644
--- a/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/util/TestUtils.java
+++ b/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/util/TestUtils.java
@@ -20,11 +20,15 @@ import io.netty.util.NetUtil;
 import io.netty.util.internal.logging.InternalLogger;
 import io.netty.util.internal.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
 import org.junit.rules.TestName;
+import org.tukaani.xz.LZMA2Options;
+import org.tukaani.xz.XZOutputStream;
 
 import javax.management.MBeanServer;
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory;
 import java.lang.management.ThreadInfo;
@@ -238,6 +242,51 @@ public final class TestUtils {
             hotspotMXBeanDumpHeap.invoke(hotspotMXBean, filename, true);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             logger.warn("Failed to dump heap: {}", filename, e);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        final String xzFilename = filename + ".xz";
+        logger.info("Compressing the heap dump: {}", xzFilename);
+        final byte[] buf = new byte[65536];
+        InputStream in = null;
+        OutputStream out = null;
+        try {
+            in = new FileInputStream(filename);
+            out = new XZOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(xzFilename), new LZMA2Options(9));
+            for (;;) {
+                int readBytes = in.read(buf);
+                if (readBytes < 0) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                if (readBytes == 0) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                out.write(buf, 0, readBytes);
+            }
+            out.close();
+            in.close();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            logger.warn("Failed to compress the heap dump: {}", xzFilename, e);
+        } finally {
+            if (in != null) {
+                try {
+                    in.close();
+                } catch (IOException ignored) {
+                    // Ignore.
+                }
+            }
+            if (out != null) {
+                try {
+                    out.close();
+                } catch (IOException ignored) {
+                    // Ignore.
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Delete the uncompressed dump in favor of the compressed one.
+        if (!file.delete()) {
+            logger.warn("Failed to delete the uncompressed heap dump: {}", filename);
         }
     }