diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 1f878ecc51..bcc1c5ba84 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1549,6 +1549,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-2876. Use a different config for ContainerAllocationExpirer.
     (Anupam Seth via acmurthy) 
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3153. Fix TestFileOutputCommitter which was broken by
+    MAPREDUCE-2702. (mahadev via acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/output/TestFileOutputCommitter.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/output/TestFileOutputCommitter.java
index 65a0af6b46..60467acbf1 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/output/TestFileOutputCommitter.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/output/TestFileOutputCommitter.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.JobContextImpl;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.TaskAttemptContextImpl;
 
+
 public class TestFileOutputCommitter extends TestCase {
   private static Path outDir = new Path(System.getProperty("test.build.data",
       "/tmp"), "output");
@@ -187,9 +188,9 @@ public void testFailAbort() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
     assertNotNull(th);
     assertTrue(th instanceof IOException);
     assertTrue(th.getMessage().contains("fake delete failed"));
-    File jobTmpDir = new File(new Path(outDir,
-        FileOutputCommitter.TEMP_DIR_NAME).toString());
-    File taskTmpDir = new File(jobTmpDir, "_" + taskID);
+    String filename = committer.getTaskAttemptBaseDirName(tContext);
+    File jobTmpDir = new File(outDir.toString(), committer.getJobAttemptBaseDirName(jContext));
+    File taskTmpDir = new File(outDir.toString(), filename);
     File expectedFile = new File(taskTmpDir, partFile);
     assertTrue(expectedFile + " does not exists", expectedFile.exists());