diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestSupport.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestSupport.java
index 84a2522cc..6cba93116 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestSupport.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestSupport.java
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ public abstract class BaseCheckTestSupport {
 
     protected final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     protected final PrintStream stream = new PrintStream(baos);
-    protected final Properties props = new Properties();
 
     public static DefaultConfiguration createCheckConfig(Class<?> clazz) {
         return new DefaultConfiguration(clazz.getName());
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/comments/CompareTreesWithComments.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/comments/CompareTreesWithComments.java
index 0aca3a34b..c2a977e87 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/comments/CompareTreesWithComments.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/comments/CompareTreesWithComments.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.Check;
 import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.DetailAST;
 
 public class CompareTreesWithComments extends Check {
-    protected static DetailAST expectedTree;
+    static DetailAST expectedTree;
 
     @Override
     public boolean isCommentNodesRequired() {