diff --git a/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java b/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java
index 937100fb8b..dbcea84909 100644
--- a/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java
+++ b/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ import com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
 @Test(groups = "live", singleThreaded = true)
 public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreIntegrationTest {
 
-   private static final File BIG_FILE = new File("random.dat");
+   private File bigFile = new File("random.dat");
    private static final long SIZE = 10 * 1000 * 1000;
    private BlobStore blobStore;
    private String etag;
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreInt
    public RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest() {
       provider = "openstack-swift";
       try {
-         BIG_FILE = File.createTempFile("random", "dat");
+         bigFile = File.createTempFile("random", "dat");
       } catch (IOException ioe) {
          throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
       }
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreInt
    @BeforeClass
    public void setup() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
       blobStore = getBlobStore();
-      createRandomFile(SIZE, BIG_FILE);
-      HashCode hashCode = Files.hash(BIG_FILE, Hashing.md5());
+      createRandomFile(SIZE, bigFile);
+      HashCode hashCode = Files.hash(bigFile, Hashing.md5());
       etag = hashCode.toString();
       blobStore.createContainerInLocation(null, CONTAINER);
       System.out.println("generated file md5: " + etag);
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreInt
    @AfterClass
    public void cleanupFiles() {
       // Delete local file
-      delete(BIG_FILE);
-      delete(new File(BIG_FILE + ".downloaded"));
+      delete(bigFile);
+      delete(new File(bigFile + ".downloaded"));
 
       // Delete uploaded file
       blobStore.clearContainer(CONTAINER);
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreInt
 
    @Test
    public void uploadMultipartBlob() {
-      Blob blob = blobStore.blobBuilder(BIG_FILE.getName())
-            .payload(new FilePayload(BIG_FILE))
+      Blob blob = blobStore.blobBuilder(bigFile.getName())
+            .payload(new FilePayload(bigFile))
             .build();
       // configure the blobstore to use multipart uploading of the file
       String eTag = blobStore.putBlob(CONTAINER, blob, multipart(executor));
@@ -126,15 +126,15 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreInt
 
    @Test(dependsOnMethods = "uploadMultipartBlob", singleThreaded = true)
    public void downloadParallelBlob() throws IOException {
-      final File downloadedFile = new File(BIG_FILE + ".downloaded");
-      blobStore.downloadBlob(CONTAINER, BIG_FILE.getName(), downloadedFile, executor);
+      final File downloadedFile = new File(bigFile + ".downloaded");
+      blobStore.downloadBlob(CONTAINER, bigFile.getName(), downloadedFile, executor);
       String eTag = Files.hash(downloadedFile, Hashing.md5()).toString();
       assertEquals(eTag, etag);
    }
 
    @Test(dependsOnMethods = "uploadMultipartBlob", singleThreaded = true)
    public void streamParallelBlob() throws IOException {
-      InputStream is = blobStore.streamBlob(CONTAINER, BIG_FILE.getName(), executor);
+      InputStream is = blobStore.streamBlob(CONTAINER, bigFile.getName(), executor);
       byte[] segment = new byte[1000000];
 
       Hasher hasher = Hashing.md5().newHasher();