diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index b99fd0438c..67152967d3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ Release 2.0.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-2708. Stats for the # of blocks per DN. (atm)
 
+    HDFS-3279. Move the FSEditLog constructor with @VisibleForTesting to
+    TestEditLog.  (Arpit Gupta via szetszwo)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-3024. Improve performance of stringification in addStoredBlock (todd)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
index c90998a692..c144906c5c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSEditLog.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
@@ -178,20 +177,6 @@ protected synchronized TransactionId initialValue() {
     }
   };
 
-  /**
-   * Construct FSEditLog with default configuration, taking editDirs from NNStorage
-   * 
-   * @param storage Storage object used by namenode
-   */
-  @VisibleForTesting
-  FSEditLog(NNStorage storage) throws IOException {
-    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
-    // Make sure the edits dirs are set in the provided configuration object.
-    conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_EDITS_DIR_KEY,
-        StringUtils.join(storage.getEditsDirectories(), ","));
-    init(conf, storage, FSNamesystem.getNamespaceEditsDirs(conf));
-  }
-
   /**
    * Constructor for FSEditLog. Underlying journals are constructed, but 
    * no streams are opened until open() is called.
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestEditLog.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestEditLog.java
index 05df7fe983..7f4872198b 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestEditLog.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestEditLog.java
@@ -141,6 +141,20 @@ public void run() {
       }
     }
   }
+  
+  /**
+   * Construct FSEditLog with default configuration, taking editDirs from NNStorage
+   * 
+   * @param storage Storage object used by namenode
+   */
+  private static FSEditLog getFSEditLog(NNStorage storage) throws IOException {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    // Make sure the edits dirs are set in the provided configuration object.
+    conf.set(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_EDITS_DIR_KEY,
+        StringUtils.join(",", storage.getEditsDirectories()));
+    FSEditLog log = new FSEditLog(conf, storage, FSNamesystem.getNamespaceEditsDirs(conf));
+    return log;
+  }
 
   /**
    * Test case for an empty edit log from a prior version of Hadoop.
@@ -863,7 +877,7 @@ public void testEditLogManifestMocks() throws IOException {
     storage = mockStorageWithEdits(
         "[1,100]|[101,200]|[201,]",
         "[1,100]|[101,200]|[201,]");
-    log = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    log = getFSEditLog(storage);
     log.initJournalsForWrite();
     assertEquals("[[1,100], [101,200]]",
         log.getEditLogManifest(1).toString());
@@ -875,7 +889,7 @@ public void testEditLogManifestMocks() throws IOException {
     storage = mockStorageWithEdits(
         "[1,100]|[101,200]",
         "[1,100]|[201,300]|[301,400]"); // nothing starting at 101
-    log = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    log = getFSEditLog(storage);
     log.initJournalsForWrite();
     assertEquals("[[1,100], [101,200], [201,300], [301,400]]",
         log.getEditLogManifest(1).toString());
@@ -885,7 +899,7 @@ public void testEditLogManifestMocks() throws IOException {
     storage = mockStorageWithEdits(
         "[1,100]|[301,400]", // gap from 101 to 300
         "[301,400]|[401,500]");
-    log = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    log = getFSEditLog(storage);
     log.initJournalsForWrite();
     assertEquals("[[301,400], [401,500]]",
         log.getEditLogManifest(1).toString());
@@ -895,7 +909,7 @@ public void testEditLogManifestMocks() throws IOException {
     storage = mockStorageWithEdits(
         "[1,100]|[101,150]", // short log at 101
         "[1,50]|[101,200]"); // short log at 1
-    log = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    log = getFSEditLog(storage);
     log.initJournalsForWrite();
     assertEquals("[[1,100], [101,200]]",
         log.getEditLogManifest(1).toString());
@@ -908,7 +922,7 @@ public void testEditLogManifestMocks() throws IOException {
     storage = mockStorageWithEdits(
         "[1,100]|[101,]", 
         "[1,100]|[101,200]"); 
-    log = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    log = getFSEditLog(storage);
     log.initJournalsForWrite();
     assertEquals("[[1,100], [101,200]]",
         log.getEditLogManifest(1).toString());
@@ -998,7 +1012,7 @@ public static NNStorage setupEdits(List<URI> editUris, int numrolls,
                                       Collections.<URI>emptyList(),
                                       editUris);
     storage.format(new NamespaceInfo());
-    FSEditLog editlog = new FSEditLog(storage);    
+    FSEditLog editlog = getFSEditLog(storage);    
     // open the edit log and add two transactions
     // logGenerationStamp is used, simply because it doesn't 
     // require complex arguments.
@@ -1080,7 +1094,7 @@ public void testAlternatingJournalFailure() throws IOException {
                                    new AbortSpec(9, 0),
                                    new AbortSpec(10, 1));
     long totaltxnread = 0;
-    FSEditLog editlog = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    FSEditLog editlog = getFSEditLog(storage);
     editlog.initJournalsForWrite();
     long startTxId = 1;
     Iterable<EditLogInputStream> editStreams = editlog.selectInputStreams(startTxId, 
@@ -1130,7 +1144,7 @@ public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
     assertEquals(1, files.length);
     assertTrue(files[0].delete());
     
-    FSEditLog editlog = new FSEditLog(storage);
+    FSEditLog editlog = getFSEditLog(storage);
     editlog.initJournalsForWrite();
     long startTxId = 1;
     try {