diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 16c9b988b4..5dacdb66c1 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1629,6 +1629,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3057. Job History Server goes of OutOfMemory with 1200 Jobs 
     and Heap Size set to 10 GB. (Eric Payne via mahadev)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-2840. mr279 TestUberAM.testSleepJob test fails. (jonathan eagles
+    via mahadev)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestMRJobs.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestMRJobs.java
index 817a761175..50819f3537 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestMRJobs.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestMRJobs.java
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 import java.util.jar.JarOutputStream;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 
-import junit.framework.Assert;
-
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.FailingMapper;
@@ -70,6 +68,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestUberAM.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestUberAM.java
index 314f97758d..f2f87b07b6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestUberAM.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/TestUberAM.java
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
-import junit.framework.Assert;
-
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Counters;
@@ -34,11 +32,10 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskCompletionEvent;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskID;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskType;
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
-import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-@Ignore
 public class TestUberAM extends TestMRJobs {
 
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(TestUberAM.class);
@@ -138,8 +135,8 @@ public void testFailingMapper()
 
     TaskCompletionEvent[] events = job.getTaskCompletionEvents(0, 2);
     Assert.assertEquals(1, events.length);
-    Assert.assertEquals(TaskCompletionEvent.Status.FAILED,
-        events[0].getStatus().FAILED);
+    Assert.assertEquals(TaskCompletionEvent.Status.TIPFAILED,
+        events[0].getStatus());
     Assert.assertEquals(JobStatus.State.FAILED, job.getJobState());
     
     //Disabling till UberAM honors MRJobConfig.MAP_MAX_ATTEMPTS