diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/db.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/db.php
index 9595d3df18..0c24c59040 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/db.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/db.php
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class Tests_DB extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 		// Switch to Russian
 		$flag = setlocale( LC_ALL, 'ru_RU.utf8', 'rus', 'fr_FR.utf8', 'fr_FR', 'de_DE.utf8', 'de_DE', 'es_ES.utf8', 'es_ES' );
 		if ( false === $flag )
-			$this->markTestSkipped( 'No European languages available for testing' );
+			$this->fail( 'No European languages available for testing' );
 
 		// Try an update query
 		$wpdb->suppress_errors( true );
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/http/base.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/http/base.php
index a546fb778e..a8792783d8 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/http/base.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/http/base.php
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ abstract class WP_HTTP_UnitTestCase extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 	 */
 	function test_ssl() {
 		if ( ! wp_http_supports( array( 'ssl' ) ) )
-			$this->markTestSkipped( 'This install of PHP does not support SSL' );
+			$this->fail( 'This install of PHP does not support SSL' );
 
 		$res = wp_remote_get( 'https://wordpress.org/' );
 		$this->assertNotWPError( $res );
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/theme.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/theme.php
index 2e76f7c80e..452a836668 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/theme.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/theme.php
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class Tests_Theme extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 	function test_default_theme_in_default_theme_list() {
 		$latest_default_theme = WP_Theme::get_core_default_theme();
 		if ( ! $latest_default_theme->exists() || 'twenty' !== substr( $latest_default_theme->get_stylesheet(), 0, 6 ) ) {
-			$this->markTestSkipped( 'No Twenty* series default themes are installed' ); 
+			$this->fail( 'No Twenty* series default themes are installed' ); 
 		}
 		$this->assertContains( $latest_default_theme->get_stylesheet(), $this->default_themes );
 	}