diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/PackageNamesLoaderTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/PackageNamesLoaderTest.java
index 0cd8e2a36..ced1d681a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/PackageNamesLoaderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/PackageNamesLoaderTest.java
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ public class PackageNamesLoaderTest {
     public static URL getMockUrl(final URLConnection connection) throws IOException {
         final URLStreamHandler handler = new URLStreamHandler() {
             @Override
-            protected URLConnection openConnection(final URL arg0) throws IOException {
+            protected URLConnection openConnection(final URL arg0) {
                 return connection;
             }
         };
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessageTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessageTest.java
index 505966fa2..ecd438f34 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessageTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/LocalizedMessageTest.java
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ public class LocalizedMessageTest {
     public static URL getMockUrl(final URLConnection connection) throws IOException {
         final URLStreamHandler handler = new URLStreamHandler() {
             @Override
-            protected URLConnection openConnection(final URL arg0) throws IOException {
+            protected URLConnection openConnection(final URL arg0) {
                 return connection;
             }
         };