diff --git a/pavelib/paver_tests/test_paver_quality.py b/pavelib/paver_tests/test_paver_quality.py
index a524d5a287..739d0a0f10 100644
--- a/pavelib/paver_tests/test_paver_quality.py
+++ b/pavelib/paver_tests/test_paver_quality.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Tests for paver quality tasks
 import os
 import tempfile
 import unittest
-from mock import patch, MagicMock
+from mock import patch, MagicMock, mock_open
 from ddt import ddt, file_data
 
 import pavelib.quality
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class TestPaverRunQuality(unittest.TestCase):
         self.addCleanup(patcher.stop)
         self.addCleanup(self._mock_paver_needs.stop)
 
-    @unittest.skip("TODO: TE-868")
+    @patch('__builtin__.open', mock_open())
     def test_failure_on_diffquality_pep8(self):
         """
         If pep8 finds errors, pylint should still be run
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ class TestPaverRunQuality(unittest.TestCase):
         _mock_pep8_violations = MagicMock(
             return_value=(1, ['lms/envs/common.py:32:2: E225 missing whitespace around operator'])
         )
+
         with patch('pavelib.quality._get_pep8_violations', _mock_pep8_violations):
             with self.assertRaises(SystemExit):
                 pavelib.quality.run_quality("")
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ class TestPaverRunQuality(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(_mock_pep8_violations.call_count, 1)
         self.assertEqual(self._mock_paver_sh.call_count, 1)
 
-    @unittest.skip("TODO: TE-868")
+    @patch('__builtin__.open', mock_open())
     def test_failure_on_diffquality_pylint(self):
         """
         If diff-quality fails on pylint, the paver task should also fail
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ class TestPaverRunQuality(unittest.TestCase):
         # And assert that sh was called once (for the call to "pylint")
         self.assertEqual(self._mock_paver_sh.call_count, 1)
 
-    @unittest.skip("TODO: Fix order dependency on test_no_diff_quality_failures")
+    @patch('__builtin__.open', mock_open())
     def test_other_exception(self):
         """
         If diff-quality fails for an unknown reason on the first run (pep8), then
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ class TestPaverRunQuality(unittest.TestCase):
         # Test that pylint is NOT called by counting calls
         self.assertEqual(self._mock_paver_sh.call_count, 1)
 
-    @unittest.skip("TODO: TE-868")
+    @patch('__builtin__.open', mock_open())
     def test_no_diff_quality_failures(self):
         # Assert nothing is raised
         _mock_pep8_violations = MagicMock(return_value=(0, []))