diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
index 89bd036abfc0..d01d4e0a96bb 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestHRegion.java
@@ -1234,10 +1234,9 @@ public long getLength() {
     this.region = initHRegion(tableName, HConstants.EMPTY_START_ROW,
       HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW, false, Durability.USE_DEFAULT, wal, family);
     region.put(put);
-
     // 3. Test case where ABORT_FLUSH will throw exception.
     // Even if ABORT_FLUSH throws exception, we should not fail with IOE, but continue with
-    // DroppedSnapshotException. Below COMMMIT_FLUSH will cause flush to abort
+    // DroppedSnapshotException. Below COMMIT_FLUSH will cause flush to abort
     wal.flushActions = new FlushAction [] {FlushAction.COMMIT_FLUSH, FlushAction.ABORT_FLUSH};
 
     try {
@@ -2366,7 +2365,6 @@ public void testDataInMemoryWithoutWAL() throws IOException {
     hLog.init();
     // This chunk creation is done throughout the code base. Do we want to move it into core?
     // It is missing from this test. W/o it we NPE.
-    ChunkCreator.initialize(MemStoreLABImpl.CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT, false, 0, 0, 0, null);
     region = initHRegion(tableName, null, null, false, Durability.SYNC_WAL, hLog,
         COLUMN_FAMILY_BYTES);
 
@@ -4852,7 +4850,6 @@ protected HRegion initHRegion(TableName tableName, byte[] startKey, byte[] stopK
       String callingMethod, Configuration conf, boolean isReadOnly, byte[]... families)
       throws IOException {
     Path logDir = TEST_UTIL.getDataTestDirOnTestFS(callingMethod + ".log");
-    ChunkCreator.initialize(MemStoreLABImpl.CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT, false, 0, 0, 0, null);
     HRegionInfo hri = new HRegionInfo(tableName, startKey, stopKey);
     final WAL wal = HBaseTestingUtility.createWal(conf, logDir, hri);
     return initHRegion(tableName, startKey, stopKey, isReadOnly,
@@ -4865,6 +4862,7 @@ protected HRegion initHRegion(TableName tableName, byte[] startKey, byte[] stopK
    */
   public HRegion initHRegion(TableName tableName, byte[] startKey, byte[] stopKey,
       boolean isReadOnly, Durability durability, WAL wal, byte[]... families) throws IOException {
+    ChunkCreator.initialize(MemStoreLABImpl.CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT, false, 0, 0, 0, null);
     return TEST_UTIL.createLocalHRegion(tableName, startKey, stopKey,
         isReadOnly, durability, wal, families);
   }