diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-preProcessDoesntWork.R b/tests/testthat/test-preProcessDoesntWork.R
index 6e4909487..0fc7bf082 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-preProcessDoesntWork.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-preProcessDoesntWork.R
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ test_that("preProcess fails if user provides a directory as a targetFile", {
   testthat::skip_on_cran()
   testthat::skip_on_travis()
   testthat::skip_on_appveyor()
-  testInitOut <- testInit("raster", needGoogle = TRUE)
+  testInitOut <- testInit("raster", needGoogle = TRUE,
+                          opts = list('reproducible.overwrite' = TRUE))
   on.exit({
     testOnExit(testInitOut)
   }, add = TRUE)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-preProcessMessages.R b/tests/testthat/test-preProcessMessages.R
index a23999372..3ecf9a712 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-preProcessMessages.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-preProcessMessages.R
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ test_that("preProcess returns messages for deprecated arguments", {
   testthat::skip_on_cran()
   testthat::skip_on_travis()
   testthat::skip_on_appveyor()
-  testInitOut <- testInit("raster", needGoogle = TRUE)
+  testInitOut <- testInit("raster", needGoogle = TRUE,
+                          opts = list("reproducible.overwrite" = TRUE))
   on.exit({
     testOnExit(testInitOut)
   }, add = TRUE)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-preProcessWorks.R b/tests/testthat/test-preProcessWorks.R
index 0af33365c..796315e86 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-preProcessWorks.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-preProcessWorks.R
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ test_that("preProcess works in different situations", {
   testthat::skip_on_cran()
   testthat::skip_on_travis()
   testthat::skip_on_appveyor()
-  testInitOut <- testInit("raster", needGoogle = TRUE)
+  testInitOut <- testInit("raster", needGoogle = TRUE,
+                          opts = list("reproducible.overwrite" = TRUE))
   on.exit({
     testOnExit(testInitOut)
   }, add = TRUE)