diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/core/nested-text-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/core/nested-text-test.xml
index 59d6ef46c..7b40b9094 100644
--- a/src/tests/antunit/core/nested-text-test.xml
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/core/nested-text-test.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
   <!-- https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46285 -->
   <target name="testNumericEntities">
     <echo>&#xe4;&#169;</echo>
+    <mkdir dir="${output}"/>
+    <concat destfile="${output}/log">
+      <au:logcontent/>
+    </concat>
+    <au:assertResourceContains value="ä©" resource="${output}/log"/>
     <au:assertLogContains text="ä©"/>
   </target>
 
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/exec-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/exec-test.xml
index 84f66d3e2..6f795afd4 100644
--- a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/exec-test.xml
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/exec-test.xml
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ public class Hello {
 }]]></echo>
       <mkdir dir="${output}"/>
       <javac srcdir="${input}" destdir="${output}"/>
-      <exec executable="java">
+      <exec executable="java" failonerror="true">
         <arg line="-cp ${output} org.example.CallHello"/>
       </exec>
       <au:assertLogContains text="finished"/>