diff --git a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
index 0b42e155ce2c3d286419b354469df9e8728c7c1e..de8455cf5f380af3ec864e583bc8a6ad3e0611bf 100644
--- a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
+++ b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_default.py
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ def test_pipreqcheck_virtualenv_packages(host, pip_path, expected_packages):
 
     # Normalise package names and order.
     expected_packages = sorted([unicode(p.lower()) for p in expected_packages])
-    actual_packages = sorted(packages.stdout.lower().split("\n"))
+    actual_packages = sorted(packages.stdout.lower().strip().split("\n"))
 
     # This is a dummy distro-provided package ignored by the pip-tools.
     if "pkg-resources==0.0.0" in actual_packages:
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ def test_pipreqcheck_virtualenv_python_version(host, python_path, expected_major
         major_version = host.run("%s -c %s", python_path, "import sys; print(sys.version_info.major)")
 
     assert major_version.rc == 0
-    assert major_version.stdout == expected_major_version
+    assert major_version.stdout.strip() == expected_major_version
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('wrong_python_path', [
diff --git a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_parameters_optional.py b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_parameters_optional.py
index f43ae70746d3886604ccc89beaeb91727d5a83cf..2044e34ea6e49625bcc199d30a46132d8bb959ec 100644
--- a/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_parameters_optional.py
+++ b/roles/common/molecule/default/tests/test_parameters_optional.py
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ def test_ntp_query_server_count(host):
     ntpq = host.command("ntpq -p -n")
 
     assert ntpq.rc == 0
-    assert len(ntpq.stdout.split("\n")) == expected_stdout_line_count
+    assert len(ntpq.stdout.strip().split("\n")) == expected_stdout_line_count
 
 
 def test_ntp_listening_interfaces(host):