diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/header/RegexpHeaderCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/header/RegexpHeaderCheckTest.java
index 9e319d36d..9666e234b 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/header/RegexpHeaderCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/header/RegexpHeaderCheckTest.java
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ public class RegexpHeaderCheckTest extends BaseFileSetCheckTestSupport {
         // check null passes
         RegexpHeaderCheck instance = new RegexpHeaderCheck();
         // check empty string passes
-        instance = new RegexpHeaderCheck();
         String header = "";
         instance.setHeader(header);
     }
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ public class RegexpHeaderCheckTest extends BaseFileSetCheckTestSupport {
     public void testSetHeaderSimple() {
         RegexpHeaderCheck instance = new RegexpHeaderCheck();
         // check valid header passes
-        instance = new RegexpHeaderCheck();
         String header = "abc.*";
         instance.setHeader(header);
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/filters/SuppressionsLoaderTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/filters/SuppressionsLoaderTest.java
index 9167195d5..a817dd3d0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/filters/SuppressionsLoaderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/filters/SuppressionsLoaderTest.java
@@ -185,8 +185,7 @@ public class SuppressionsLoaderTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport {
         try {
             URL url = new URL("http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/");
             HttpURLConnection urlConnect = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
-            @SuppressWarnings("unused")
-            Object objData = urlConnect.getContent();
+            urlConnect.getContent();
         }
         catch (IOException e) {
             return false;