diff --git a/test/app.router.js b/test/app.router.js
index d716ea4b04..5a31b5fb90 100644
--- a/test/app.router.js
+++ b/test/app.router.js
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ describe('app.router', function(){
       .expect('/user/tobi.json', done)
     })
 
-    it('should decore the capture', function (done) {
+    it('should decode the capture', function (done) {
       var app = express()
 
       app.get('*', function (req, res) {
diff --git a/test/req.acceptsCharset.js b/test/req.acceptsCharset.js
index 0d0ed8b5e4..f7d0cc0e30 100644
--- a/test/req.acceptsCharset.js
+++ b/test/req.acceptsCharset.js
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ describe('req', function(){
       })
     })
 
-    describe('when Accept-Charset is not present', function(){
-      it('should return true when present', function(done){
+    describe('when Accept-Charset is present', function () {
+      it('should return true', function (done) {
         var app = express();
 
         app.use(function(req, res, next){
diff --git a/test/req.acceptsCharsets.js b/test/req.acceptsCharsets.js
index 2f4574c524..d1c459174a 100644
--- a/test/req.acceptsCharsets.js
+++ b/test/req.acceptsCharsets.js
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ describe('req', function(){
       })
     })
 
-    describe('when Accept-Charset is not present', function(){
-      it('should return true when present', function(done){
+    describe('when Accept-Charset is present', function () {
+      it('should return true', function (done) {
         var app = express();
 
         app.use(function(req, res, next){
diff --git a/test/req.acceptsEncodings.js b/test/req.acceptsEncodings.js
index aba8ea5fbe..a5cf747d41 100644
--- a/test/req.acceptsEncodings.js
+++ b/test/req.acceptsEncodings.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ var express = require('../')
   , request = require('supertest');
 
 describe('req', function(){
-  describe('.acceptsEncodingss', function(){
+  describe('.acceptsEncodings', function () {
     it('should be true if encoding accepted', function(done){
       var app = express();
 
diff --git a/test/req.query.js b/test/req.query.js
index d3d29abd16..7819420ce0 100644
--- a/test/req.query.js
+++ b/test/req.query.js
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ describe('req', function(){
       });
     });
 
-    describe('when "query parser" disabled', function () {
+    describe('when "query parser" enabled', function () {
       it('should not parse complex keys', function (done) {
         var app = createApp(true);
 
diff --git a/test/res.download.js b/test/res.download.js
index 084b3c7164..cf3b3ca53e 100644
--- a/test/res.download.js
+++ b/test/res.download.js
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ describe('res', function(){
     })
 
     describe('when options.headers contains Content-Disposition', function () {
-      it('should should be ignored', function (done) {
+      it('should be ignored', function (done) {
         var app = express()
 
         app.use(function (req, res) {
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ describe('res', function(){
         .end(done)
       })
 
-      it('should should be ignored case-insensitively', function (done) {
+      it('should be ignored case-insensitively', function (done) {
         var app = express()
 
         app.use(function (req, res) {