diff --git a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestCase.java b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestCase.java
index 7c84f9c30..64e0ef7a9 100644
--- a/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestCase.java
+++ b/src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/BaseCheckTestCase.java
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ public abstract class BaseCheckTestCase
     public static DefaultConfiguration createCheckConfig(Class aClazz)
     {
         final DefaultConfiguration checkConfig =
-            new DefaultConfiguration("test");
-        checkConfig.addAttribute("classname", aClazz.getName());
+            new DefaultConfiguration(aClazz.getName());
         return checkConfig;
     }