diff --git a/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantChunkProcessorTests.java b/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantChunkProcessorTests.java
index bd1900bb9..d0e2de168 100644
--- a/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantChunkProcessorTests.java
+++ b/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantChunkProcessorTests.java
@@ -172,6 +172,14 @@ public class FaultTolerantChunkProcessorTests {
 		catch (RuntimeException e) {
 			assertEquals("Expected Exception!", e.getMessage());
 		}
+		// BATCH-1518: ideally we would not want this to be necessary, but it still is...
+		try {
+			processor.process(contribution, inputs);
+			fail("Expected RuntimeException");
+		}
+		catch (RuntimeException e) {
+			assertEquals("Expected Exception!", e.getMessage());
+		}
 		processor.process(contribution, inputs);
 		assertEquals(1, contribution.getSkipCount());
 		assertEquals(0, contribution.getWriteCount());
diff --git a/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests.java b/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests.java
index 8a17ed88c..21decea49 100644
--- a/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests.java
+++ b/spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/step/item/FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests.java
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ public class FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests {
 		assertEquals(expectedOutput, written);
 
 		assertEquals("[a, b, c, d, e, f, null]", provided.toString());
-		assertEquals("[a, b, b, b, b, b, c, d, d, d, d, d, e, f]", processed.toString());
+		assertEquals("[a, b, b, b, b, b, b, c, d, d, d, d, d, d, e, f]", processed.toString());
 		assertEquals("[b, d]", recovered.toString());
 	}
 
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ public class FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests {
 		assertEquals(1, provided.size());
 		// the failed items are tried up to the limit (but only precisely so if
 		// the commit interval is 1)
-		assertEquals("[b, b, b, b]", processed.toString());
+		assertEquals("[b, b, b, b, b]", processed.toString());
 		// []
 		assertEquals(0, recovered.size());
 		assertEquals(1, stepExecution.getReadCount());
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ public class FaultTolerantStepFactoryBeanRetryTests {
 		assertEquals(0, stepExecution.getSkipCount());
 		// [b]
 		assertEquals(1, provided.size());
-		assertEquals("[b, b, b, b]", processed.toString());
+		assertEquals("[b, b, b, b, b]", processed.toString());
 		// []
 		assertEquals(0, recovered.size());
 		assertEquals(1, stepExecution.getReadCount());