diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/ErasureCoder.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/ErasureCoder.java
index 68875c06ad8..c5922f37b15 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/ErasureCoder.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/ErasureCoder.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.coder;
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable;
+
 /**
  * An erasure coder to perform encoding or decoding given a group. Generally it
  * involves calculating necessary internal steps according to codec logic. For
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.coder;
  * of multiple coding steps.
  *
  */
-public interface ErasureCoder {
+public interface ErasureCoder extends Configurable {
 
   /**
    * Initialize with the important parameters for the code.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/RawErasureCoder.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/RawErasureCoder.java
index 91a9abfe2aa..9af5b6c0a94 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/RawErasureCoder.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/RawErasureCoder.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.rawcoder;
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable;
+
 /**
  * RawErasureCoder is a common interface for {@link RawErasureEncoder} and
  * {@link RawErasureDecoder} as both encoder and decoder share some properties.
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ package org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.rawcoder;
  * low level constructs, since it only takes care of the math calculation with
  * a group of byte buffers.
  */
-public interface RawErasureCoder {
+public interface RawErasureCoder extends Configurable {
 
   /**
    * Initialize with the important parameters for the code.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/TestCoderBase.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/TestCoderBase.java
index 194413a43ac..22fd98d2c4d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/TestCoderBase.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/TestCoderBase.java
@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode;
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Random;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 /**
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 public abstract class TestCoderBase {
   protected static Random RAND = new Random();
 
+  private Configuration conf;
   protected int numDataUnits;
   protected int numParityUnits;
   protected int chunkSize = 16 * 1024;
@@ -49,14 +51,23 @@ public abstract class TestCoderBase {
    * @param numParityUnits
    * @param erasedIndexes
    */
-  protected void prepare(int numDataUnits, int numParityUnits,
-                         int[] erasedIndexes) {
+  protected void prepare(Configuration conf, int numDataUnits,
+                         int numParityUnits, int[] erasedIndexes) {
+    this.conf = conf;
     this.numDataUnits = numDataUnits;
     this.numParityUnits = numParityUnits;
     this.erasedDataIndexes = erasedIndexes != null ?
         erasedIndexes : new int[] {0};
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Get the conf the test.
+   * @return configuration
+   */
+  protected Configuration getConf() {
+    return this.conf;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Compare and verify if erased chunks are equal to recovered chunks
    * @param erasedChunks
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/TestErasureCoderBase.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/TestErasureCoderBase.java
index d911db9e199..b963a594eb1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/TestErasureCoderBase.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/coder/TestErasureCoderBase.java
@@ -17,10 +17,9 @@
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.coder;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.ECBlock;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.ECChunk;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.ECBlockGroup;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.ECChunk;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.TestCoderBase;
 
 /**
@@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ public abstract class TestErasureCoderBase extends TestCoderBase {
   protected Class<? extends ErasureEncoder> encoderClass;
   protected Class<? extends ErasureDecoder> decoderClass;
 
-  private Configuration conf;
   protected int numChunksInBlock = 16;
 
   /**
@@ -47,19 +45,6 @@ public abstract class TestErasureCoderBase extends TestCoderBase {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Prepare before running the case.
-   * @param conf
-   * @param numDataUnits
-   * @param numParityUnits
-   * @param erasedIndexes
-   */
-  protected void prepare(Configuration conf, int numDataUnits,
-                         int numParityUnits, int[] erasedIndexes) {
-    this.conf = conf;
-    super.prepare(numDataUnits, numParityUnits, erasedIndexes);
-  }
-
   /**
    * Generating source data, encoding, recovering and then verifying.
    * RawErasureCoder mainly uses ECChunk to pass input and output data buffers,
@@ -162,7 +147,7 @@ public abstract class TestErasureCoderBase extends TestCoderBase {
     }
 
     encoder.initialize(numDataUnits, numParityUnits, chunkSize);
-    ((AbstractErasureCoder)encoder).setConf(conf);
+    encoder.setConf(getConf());
     return encoder;
   }
 
@@ -179,7 +164,7 @@ public abstract class TestErasureCoderBase extends TestCoderBase {
     }
 
     decoder.initialize(numDataUnits, numParityUnits, chunkSize);
-    ((AbstractErasureCoder)decoder).setConf(conf);
+    decoder.setConf(getConf());
     return decoder;
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestJRSRawCoder.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestJRSRawCoder.java
index e54f647cf6c..39e5deb4527 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestJRSRawCoder.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestJRSRawCoder.java
@@ -46,37 +46,37 @@ public class TestJRSRawCoder extends TestRawCoderBase {
 
   @Test
   public void testCodingNoDirectBuffer_10x4() {
-    prepare(10, 4, null);
+    prepare(null, 10, 4, null);
     testCoding(false);
   }
 
   @Test
   public void testCodingDirectBuffer_10x4() {
-    prepare(10, 4, null);
+    prepare(null, 10, 4, null);
     testCoding(true);
   }
 
   @Test
   public void testCodingDirectBuffer_10x4_erasure_of_2_4() {
-    prepare(10, 4, new int[] {2, 4});
+    prepare(null, 10, 4, new int[] {2, 4});
     testCoding(true);
   }
 
   @Test
   public void testCodingDirectBuffer_10x4_erasing_all() {
-    prepare(10, 4, new int[] {0, 1, 2, 3});
+    prepare(null, 10, 4, new int[] {0, 1, 2, 3});
     testCoding(true);
   }
 
   @Test
   public void testCodingNoDirectBuffer_3x3() {
-    prepare(3, 3, null);
+    prepare(null, 3, 3, null);
     testCoding(false);
   }
 
   @Test
   public void testCodingDirectBuffer_3x3() {
-    prepare(3, 3, null);
+    prepare(null, 3, 3, null);
     testCoding(true);
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestRawCoderBase.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestRawCoderBase.java
index 890f632370f..b036eed4ced 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestRawCoderBase.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder/TestRawCoderBase.java
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ public abstract class TestRawCoderBase extends TestCoderBase {
     }
 
     encoder.initialize(numDataUnits, numParityUnits, chunkSize);
+    encoder.setConf(getConf());
     return encoder;
   }
 
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ public abstract class TestRawCoderBase extends TestCoderBase {
     }
 
     decoder.initialize(numDataUnits, numParityUnits, chunkSize);
+    decoder.setConf(getConf());
     return decoder;
   }