diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoaderTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoaderTest.java
index a793da549..d0d923a2e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoaderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoaderTest.java
@@ -486,10 +486,7 @@ public class ConfigurationLoaderTest {
             final Configuration[] children = config.getChildren();
             assertEquals(0, children[0].getChildren().length);
         }
-        catch (CheckstyleException ex) {
-            fail("unexpected exception");
-        }
-        catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+        catch (CheckstyleException | FileNotFoundException ex) {
             fail("unexpected exception");
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/UtilsTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/UtilsTest.java
index 265e7975d..f3c66770c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/UtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/UtilsTest.java
@@ -233,10 +233,7 @@ public class UtilsTest {
             assertEquals("given id " + id, expected.getMessage());
 
         }
-        catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
-            fail();
-        }
-        catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
+        catch (IllegalAccessException | NoSuchFieldException e) {
             fail();
         }
     }