diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 58e0d5b2a62..cd1a8427f1f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1411. HA config shouldn't affect NodeManager RPC addresses (Karthik
     Kambatla via bikas)
 
+    YARN-1419. TestFifoScheduler.testAppAttemptMetrics fails intermittently
+    under jdk7 (Jonathan Eagles via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.2.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/TestFifoScheduler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/TestFifoScheduler.java
index 238459097e7..00cb71ebe49 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/TestFifoScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/fifo/TestFifoScheduler.java
@@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ public class TestFifoScheduler {
 
     FifoScheduler schedular = new FifoScheduler();
     schedular.reinitialize(new Configuration(), rmContext);
+    QueueMetrics metrics = schedular.getRootQueueMetrics();
+    int beforeAppsSubmitted = metrics.getAppsSubmitted();
 
     ApplicationId appId = BuilderUtils.newApplicationId(200, 1);
     ApplicationAttemptId appAttemptId = BuilderUtils.newApplicationAttemptId(
@@ -155,8 +157,8 @@ public class TestFifoScheduler {
     event = new AppAddedSchedulerEvent(appAttemptId, "queue", "user");
     schedular.handle(event);
 
-    QueueMetrics metrics = schedular.getRootQueueMetrics();
-    Assert.assertEquals(1, metrics.getAppsSubmitted());
+    int afterAppsSubmitted = metrics.getAppsSubmitted();
+    Assert.assertEquals(1, afterAppsSubmitted - beforeAppsSubmitted);
   }
 
   @Test(timeout=2000)