diff --git a/spring-batch-execution/src/test/resources/org/springframework/batch/execution/configuration/BatchNamespaceHandlerTaskletStepMissingTasklet.xml b/spring-batch-execution/src/test/resources/org/springframework/batch/execution/configuration/BatchNamespaceHandlerTaskletStepMissingTasklet.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad1b65994
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-batch-execution/src/test/resources/org/springframework/batch/execution/configuration/BatchNamespaceHandlerTaskletStepMissingTasklet.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
+	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-1.0.xsd">
+
+	<job id="processJob">
+		<tasklet-step id="process" tasklet=""/>
+	</job>
+
+</beans:beans>
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diff --git a/spring-batch-execution/src/test/resources/org/springframework/batch/execution/configuration/BatchNamespaceHandlerTaskletStepOk.xml b/spring-batch-execution/src/test/resources/org/springframework/batch/execution/configuration/BatchNamespaceHandlerTaskletStepOk.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25e1ac598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-batch-execution/src/test/resources/org/springframework/batch/execution/configuration/BatchNamespaceHandlerTaskletStepOk.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch"
+	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-1.0.xsd">
+
+	<job id="processJob">
+		<tasklet-step id="process" tasklet="processorTasklet"/>
+	</job>
+
+	<beans:bean id="processorTasklet" class="org.springframework.batch.execution.configuration.TaskletTestBean"/>
+
+</beans:beans>
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