diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/MethodReferencesTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/MethodReferencesTest.java
index 4562a7019..82c0c5b69 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/MethodReferencesTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/MethodReferencesTest.java
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.grammars.java8;
 
+import java.io.File;
+
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.BaseCheckTestSupport;
@@ -34,7 +36,9 @@ public class MethodReferencesTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport
         final DefaultConfiguration checkConfig =
                 createCheckConfig(MemberNameCheck.class);
         final String[] expected = {};
-        verify(checkConfig, getPath("grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest.java"), expected);
+        verify(checkConfig, new File("src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/"
+                + "puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/"
+                + "InputMethodReferencesTest.java").getCanonicalPath(), expected);
 
     }
 
@@ -45,7 +49,9 @@ public class MethodReferencesTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport
         final DefaultConfiguration checkConfig =
                 createCheckConfig(MemberNameCheck.class);
         final String[] expected = {};
-        verify(checkConfig, getPath("grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest2.java"), expected);
+        verify(checkConfig, new File("src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/"
+                + "puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/"
+                + "InputMethodReferencesTest2.java").getCanonicalPath(), expected);
 
     }
 
@@ -56,7 +62,9 @@ public class MethodReferencesTest extends BaseCheckTestSupport
         final DefaultConfiguration checkConfig =
                 createCheckConfig(MemberNameCheck.class);
         final String[] expected = {};
-        verify(checkConfig, getPath("grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest3.java"), expected);
+        verify(checkConfig, new File("src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/"
+                + "puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/"
+                + "InputMethodReferencesTest3.java").getCanonicalPath(), expected);
 
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest.java b/src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest.java
rename to src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest.java
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest2.java b/src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest2.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest2.java
rename to src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest2.java
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest3.java b/src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest3.java
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest3.java
rename to src/test/resources-noncompilable/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/java8/InputMethodReferencesTest3.java