diff --git a/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/ActionsUnitTest.java b/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/ActionsUnitTest.java
index 6d6a1394c5..b1083021a9 100644
--- a/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/ActionsUnitTest.java
+++ b/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/ActionsUnitTest.java
@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@ public class ActionsUnitTest {
 
     @BeforeClass
     public static void init() {
-        SparkConf conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("reduce")
-            .setMaster("local[*]");
+        SparkConf conf = new SparkConf()
+          .setAppName("reduce")
+          .setMaster("local[*]")
+          .set("spark.driver.allowMultipleContexts", "true");
+
         sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);
         tourists = sc.textFile("data/Tourist.csv").filter(line -> !line.startsWith("Region"));
     }
diff --git a/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/TransformationsUnitTest.java b/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/TransformationsUnitTest.java
index 01e7d3adfc..6de407f3b4 100644
--- a/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/TransformationsUnitTest.java
+++ b/apache-spark/src/test/java/com/baeldung/differences/rdd/TransformationsUnitTest.java
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ public class TransformationsUnitTest {
 
     @BeforeClass
     public static void init() {
-        SparkConf conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("uppercaseCountries")
-            .setMaster("local[*]");
+        SparkConf conf = new SparkConf()
+          .setAppName("uppercaseCountries")
+          .setMaster("local[*]")
+          .set("spark.driver.allowMultipleContexts", "true");
+
         sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);
         tourists = sc.textFile("data/Tourist.csv")
             .filter(line -> !line.startsWith("Region")); //filter header row