diff --git a/rest-assured-tutorial/pom.xml b/rest-assured-tutorial/pom.xml
index 43072d3094..0d5a73d075 100644
--- a/rest-assured-tutorial/pom.xml
+++ b/rest-assured-tutorial/pom.xml
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>3.3</version>
         <configuration>
-          <source>7</source>
-          <target>7</target>
+          <source>8</source>
+          <target>8</target>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
diff --git a/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/java/com/baeldung/restassured/RestAssuredTest.java b/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/java/com/baeldung/restassured/RestAssuredTest.java
index 05d0a4d59c..e971efe3cb 100644
--- a/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/java/com/baeldung/restassured/RestAssuredTest.java
+++ b/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/java/com/baeldung/restassured/RestAssuredTest.java
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public class RestAssuredTest {
 	}
 
 	private static String getEventJson() {
-		return Util.inputStreamToString(new RestAssuredTest().getClass()
+		return Util.inputStreamToString(RestAssuredTest.class
 				.getResourceAsStream("/event_0.json"));
 	}
 
diff --git a/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/resources/log4j.properties b/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
index e4b76524e8..d3c6b9e783 100644
--- a/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
+++ b/rest-assured-tutorial/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-## Logger configure file for myproject
-log.dir=C:/ProgramData/radixbase/
+## Logger configure
 datestamp=yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
 log4j.rootLogger=TRACE, file, console
 
 log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
 log4j.appender.file.maxFileSize=1GB
 log4j.appender.file.maxBackupIndex=5
-log4j.appender.file.File=log/mydebug.log
+log4j.appender.file.File=log/rest-assured.log
 log4j.appender.file.threshold=TRACE
 log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
 log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{${datestamp}} %5p: [%c] - %m%n