diff --git a/tests/ExampleTests.cpp b/tests/ExampleTests.cpp
index 2c4d77d03db743730f98d6b06718b8a8606f4fb2..a661d2fe2c8382e76c3cda075a88b60a2eb230d8 100644
--- a/tests/ExampleTests.cpp
+++ b/tests/ExampleTests.cpp
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ TEST(ExampleTests, test_write_results) {
     write_results(&counter, "output.txt");
     cleanup_frequency_counter(&counter);
     // check the output file
-    FILE *f = fopen("./output.txt", "r");
+    FILE *f = fopen("output.txt", "r");
     char line[100];
     fgets(line, 100, f);
     EXPECT_STREQ("hello 3\n", line);
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ TEST(ExampleTests, test_write_results) {
 TEST(ExampleTests, test_filter_stop_words) {
     FrequencyCounter counter;
     init_frequency_counter(&counter);
-    read_and_count_words(&counter, "./test.txt");
+    read_and_count_words(&counter, "test.txt");
     sort_words_by_frequency(&counter);
-    filter_stop_words(&counter, "./stopwords.txt");
-    write_results(&counter, "./output.txt");
+    filter_stop_words(&counter, "stopWords.txt");
+    write_results(&counter, "output.txt");
     EXPECT_EQ(3, counter.count);
     EXPECT_STREQ("hello", counter.words[0].word);
     EXPECT_EQ(3, counter.words[0].frequency);
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ TEST(ExampleTests, test_filter_stop_words) {
 }
 
 TEST(ExampleTests, test_count_words_in_file) {
-    EXPECT_EQ(6, count_words_in_file("./test.txt"));
+    EXPECT_EQ(6, count_words_in_file("test.txt"));
 }
 
 //TEST(ExampleTests, test_read_and_count_ngrams) {