diff --git a/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/Assertions.java b/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/Assertions.java
index cca14c30994..a6a38e4e68f 100644
--- a/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/Assertions.java
+++ b/rewrite-maven/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/Assertions.java
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-
 public class Assertions {
     private Assertions() {
     }
@@ -67,9 +65,11 @@ public static SourceSpecs pomXml(@Language("xml") @Nullable String before, @Lang
     }
 
     private static SourceFile pomResolvedSuccessfully(SourceFile sourceFile, TypeValidation typeValidation) {
-        sourceFile.getMarkers()
-                .findFirst(MavenResolutionResult.class)
-                .orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalStateException("No MavenResolutionResult found"));
+        if (typeValidation.dependencyModel()) {
+            sourceFile.getMarkers()
+                    .findFirst(MavenResolutionResult.class)
+                    .orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalStateException("No MavenResolutionResult found"));
+        }
         return sourceFile;
     }
 }
diff --git a/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/MavenDependencyFailuresTest.java b/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/MavenDependencyFailuresTest.java
index 5e284f274ec..1a179b991a4 100644
--- a/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/MavenDependencyFailuresTest.java
+++ b/rewrite-maven/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/MavenDependencyFailuresTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.openrewrite.maven.tree.MavenResolutionResult;
 import org.openrewrite.maven.tree.Scope;
 import org.openrewrite.test.RewriteTest;
+import org.openrewrite.test.TypeValidation;
 import org.openrewrite.xml.tree.Xml;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -222,7 +223,11 @@ void unresolvableTransitiveDependencyDueToInvalidPom(@TempDir Path localReposito
     @Test
     void unresolvableDependency() {
         rewriteRun(
-          spec -> spec.executionContext(new InMemoryExecutionContext()),
+          spec -> spec.executionContext(new InMemoryExecutionContext())
+            .typeValidationOptions(TypeValidation.builder()
+              // Skip test framework validation that a MavenResolutionResult is present since this tests exercises error handling
+              .dependencyModel(false)
+              .build()),
           pomXml(
             """
               <project>
@@ -247,7 +252,8 @@ void unresolvableDependency() {
                 </dependencies>
               </project>
               """,
-            spec -> spec.afterRecipe(after -> {
+            spec -> spec
+              .afterRecipe(after -> {
                 Optional<ParseExceptionResult> maybeParseException = after.getMarkers().findFirst(ParseExceptionResult.class);
                 assertThat(maybeParseException).hasValueSatisfying(per -> assertThat(per.getMessage()).contains("Unable to download POM: com.google.guava:guava:doesnotexist. Tried repositories"));
             })
@@ -326,17 +332,15 @@ void unresolvableTransitiveDependencyDueToInvalidPom() {
               </project>
               """,
             spec -> spec.afterRecipe(pom ->
-              {
-                  assertThat(pom.getMarkers().findFirst(MavenResolutionResult.class))
-                    .isPresent()
-                    .get()
-                    .extracting(mrr -> mrr.getDependencies().get(Scope.Compile))
-                    .matches(deps -> deps.size() == 1)
-                    .extracting(deps -> deps.get(0))
-                    .matches(dep -> dep.getGroupId().equals("org.jvnet.staxex") &&
-                      dep.getArtifactId().equals("stax-ex") &&
-                      dep.getVersion().equals("1.0"));
-              }))
+              assertThat(pom.getMarkers().findFirst(MavenResolutionResult.class))
+                .isPresent()
+                .get()
+                .extracting(mrr -> mrr.getDependencies().get(Scope.Compile))
+                .matches(deps -> deps.size() == 1)
+                .extracting(deps -> deps.get(0))
+                .matches(dep -> dep.getGroupId().equals("org.jvnet.staxex") &&
+                  dep.getArtifactId().equals("stax-ex") &&
+                  dep.getVersion().equals("1.0"))))
         );
     }
 
diff --git a/rewrite-test/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/test/TypeValidation.java b/rewrite-test/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/test/TypeValidation.java
index 4c51773c841..6afde8de32e 100644
--- a/rewrite-test/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/test/TypeValidation.java
+++ b/rewrite-test/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/test/TypeValidation.java
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@
 import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.experimental.Accessors;
 
+/**
+ * Controls the test framework's validation of invariants which are expected to hold true in an LST both before and
+ * after the recipe run. Originally this applied only to validating the well-formedness of type metadata in Java LSTs
+ * (hence the name TypeValidation), but has since expanded to include concepts relevant to other types of sources.
+ * "InvariantValidation" would be a more accurate name, but "TypeValidation" is kept for backwards compatibility.
+ */
 @Data
 @NoArgsConstructor
 @AllArgsConstructor
@@ -28,30 +34,63 @@
 @Builder
 public class TypeValidation {
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether class declarations are validated to have valid type metadata.
+     */
     @Builder.Default
     private boolean classDeclarations = true;
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether identifiers declarations are validated to have valid type metadata.
+     * Within even a well-formed Java LST not all identifiers typically have type metadata, so even when enabled some
+     * identifiers are allowed to have null type.
+     */
     @Builder.Default
     private boolean identifiers = true;
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether method declarations are validated to have valid type metadata.
+     */
     @Builder.Default
     private boolean methodDeclarations = true;
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether field declarations are validated to have valid type metadata.
+     */
     @Builder.Default
     private boolean variableDeclarations = true;
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether method invocations are validated to have valid type metadata.
+     */
     @Builder.Default
     private boolean methodInvocations = true;
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether constructor invocations are validated to have valid type metadata.
+     */
     @Builder.Default
     private boolean constructorInvocations = true;
 
+    /**
+     * Controls whether sources expected to have dependency resolution metadata in a model marker are validated to have
+     * that model attached. For example, a Maven pom is expected to have a MavenResolutionResult model attached.
+     */
+    @Builder.Default
+    private boolean dependencyModel = true;
+
+    /**
+     * Enable all invariant validation checks.
+     */
     public static TypeValidation all() {
         return new TypeValidation();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Skip all invariant validation checks.
+     */
     public static TypeValidation none() {
-        return new TypeValidation(false,false,false,false,false,false);
+        return new TypeValidation(false, false, false, false, false, false, false);
     }
 
     static TypeValidation before(RecipeSpec testMethodSpec, RecipeSpec testClassSpec) {