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 4b2d9e1127..01e7d3adfc 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
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 package com.baeldung.differences.rdd;
 
-
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import java.io.File;
+
 public class TransformationsUnitTest {
-    
+
     public static final String COMMA_DELIMITER = ",(?=([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*[^\"]*$)";
+
     private static JavaSparkContext sc;
     private static JavaRDD<String> tourists;
-    
+
     @BeforeClass
     public static void init() {
         SparkConf conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("uppercaseCountries")
@@ -25,8 +28,11 @@ public class TransformationsUnitTest {
         sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);
         tourists = sc.textFile("data/Tourist.csv")
             .filter(line -> !line.startsWith("Region")); //filter header row
+
+        // delete previous output dir and files
+        FileUtils.deleteQuietly(new File("data/output"));
     }
-    
+
     @AfterClass
     public static void cleanup() {
         sc.close();
@@ -39,9 +45,9 @@ public class TransformationsUnitTest {
             return columns[1].toUpperCase();
         })
             .distinct();
-        
+
         upperCaseCountries.saveAsTextFile("data/output/uppercase.txt");
-        
+
         upperCaseCountries.foreach(country -> {
             //replace non alphanumerical characters
             country = country.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z]", "");
@@ -52,9 +58,9 @@ public class TransformationsUnitTest {
     @Test
     public void whenFilterByCountry_thenShowRequestedCountryRecords() {
         JavaRDD<String> touristsInMexico = tourists.filter(line -> line.split(COMMA_DELIMITER)[1].equals("Mexico"));
-        
+
         touristsInMexico.saveAsTextFile("data/output/touristInMexico.txt");
-        
+
         touristsInMexico.foreach(record -> {
             assertEquals("Mexico", record.split(COMMA_DELIMITER)[1]);
         });