diff --git a/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_pipelines1.yaml b/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_pipelines1.yaml
index 4207a2c..da90933 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_pipelines1.yaml
+++ b/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_pipelines1.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 pipelines:
 
-projects:
-  - name: foo
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_template3.yaml b/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_template3.yaml
index 70412b8..54697c4 100644
--- a/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_template3.yaml
+++ b/tests/fixtures/layouts/bad_template3.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 # Template refers to an unexisting pipeline
 
-pipelines:
-  # We have no pipelines at all
-
 project-templates:
   - name: template-generic
     unexisting-pipeline:  # pipeline does not exist
diff --git a/tests/test_layoutvalidator.py b/tests/test_layoutvalidator.py
index 7e9f1d5..5a8fc46 100644
--- a/tests/test_layoutvalidator.py
+++ b/tests/test_layoutvalidator.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
                     error = str(e)
                     print '  ', error
                     if error in errors:
-                        raise Exception("Error has already beed tested: %s" %
+                        raise Exception("Error has already been tested: %s" %
                                         error)
                     else:
                         errors.append(error)