diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 5bb5eb7..3c2ce49
--- a/tests/README.md
+++ b/tests/README.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Tests
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-**Case tests**
+**Test cases**
 ````
 memleaks           - Will run tests for memory leaks. valgrind is being used for this.
                      Notice that valgrind requires one second to init each thread.
 threadpool         - Will run general functional tests for the threadpool.
 pause_resume       - Will test the synchronisation of the threadpool from the user.
-wait               - Will run tests to assuse that the wait() function works correctly.
+wait               - Will run tests to ensure that the wait() function works correctly.
 heap_stack_garbage - Will test if previous garbage affects new threapools created.
 ````
 Any test can be run with extra flags by exporting the variable COMPILATION_FLAGS. That's
diff --git a/tests/src/no_work.c b/tests/src/no_work.c
index b7a802d..e055c72 100644
--- a/tests/src/no_work.c
+++ b/tests/src/no_work.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
 
 	char* p;
 	if (argc != 2){
-		puts("This testfile needs excactly one arguments");
+		puts("This testfile needs exactly one arguments");
 		exit(1);
 	}
 	int num_threads = strtol(argv[1], &p, 10);