diff --git a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java
index c0c122e2391..2d5dd27d983 100644
--- a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java
+++ b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ public class TestExternalCodecs extends LuceneTestCase {
     w.deleteDocuments(new Term("id", "77"));
 
     IndexReader r = IndexReader.open(w, true);
-    IndexReader[] subs = r.getSequentialSubReaders();
     
     assertEquals(NUM_DOCS-1, r.numDocs());
     IndexSearcher s = newSearcher(r);
diff --git a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TestTermInfosReaderIndex.java b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TestTermInfosReaderIndex.java
index 79cdc95b686..7756a11d2fd 100644
--- a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TestTermInfosReaderIndex.java
+++ b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TestTermInfosReaderIndex.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.codecs.preflexrw.PreFlexRWCodec;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.StringField;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfos;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFileNames;
@@ -93,8 +94,8 @@ public class TestTermInfosReaderIndex extends LuceneTestCase {
     
     populate(directory, config);
 
-    IndexReader r0 = IndexReader.open(directory);
-    SegmentReader r = (SegmentReader) r0.getSequentialSubReaders()[0];
+    DirectoryReader r0 = IndexReader.open(directory);
+    SegmentReader r = LuceneTestCase.getOnlySegmentReader(r0);
     String segment = r.getSegmentName();
     r.close();