diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
index 3ecd1af31eea77..3b801c939c0ec1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
@@ -395,14 +395,13 @@ def testChangeAttr(self):
                 and el.getAttribute("spam2") == "bam2")
         dom.unlink()
 
-    def testGetAttrList(self):
-        pass
+# TODO Replace empty tests below, marked with '##', with real tests.
 
-    def testGetAttrValues(self):
-        pass
+    ## def testGetAttrList(self): pass
 
-    def testGetAttrLength(self):
-        pass
+    ## def testGetAttrValues(self): pass
+
+    ## def testGetAttrLength(self): pass
 
     def testGetAttribute(self):
         dom = Document()
@@ -424,7 +423,7 @@ def testGetAttributeNS(self):
         self.assertEqual(child2.getAttributeNS("http://www.python.org", "missing"),
                          '')
 
-    def testGetAttributeNode(self): pass
+    ## def testGetAttributeNode(self): pass
 
     def testGetElementsByTagNameNS(self):
         d="""<foo xmlns:minidom='http://pyxml.sf.net/minidom'>
@@ -496,7 +495,7 @@ def testAttributeRepr(self):
         self.confirm(str(node) == repr(node))
         dom.unlink()
 
-    def testTextNodeRepr(self): pass
+    ## def testTextNodeRepr(self): pass
 
     def testWriteXML(self):
         str = '<?xml version="1.0" ?><a b="c"/>'
@@ -601,13 +600,13 @@ def testProcessingInstruction(self):
                 and pi.localName is None
                 and pi.namespaceURI == xml.dom.EMPTY_NAMESPACE)
 
-    def testProcessingInstructionRepr(self): pass
+    ## def testProcessingInstructionRepr(self): pass
 
-    def testTextRepr(self): pass
+    ## def testTextRepr(self): pass
 
-    def testWriteText(self): pass
+    ## def testWriteText(self): pass
 
-    def testDocumentElement(self): pass
+    ## def testDocumentElement(self): pass
 
     def testTooManyDocumentElements(self):
         doc = parseString("<doc/>")
@@ -617,25 +616,25 @@ def testTooManyDocumentElements(self):
         elem.unlink()
         doc.unlink()
 
-    def testCreateElementNS(self): pass
+    ## def testCreateElementNS(self): pass
 
-    def testCreateAttributeNS(self): pass
+    ## def testCreateAttributeNS(self): pass
 
-    def testParse(self): pass
+    ## def testParse(self): pass
 
-    def testParseString(self): pass
+    ## def testParseString(self): pass
 
-    def testComment(self): pass
+    ## def testComment(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrListItem(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListItem(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrListItems(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListItems(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrListItemNS(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListItemNS(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrListKeys(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListKeys(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrListKeysNS(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListKeysNS(self): pass
 
     def testRemoveNamedItem(self):
         doc = parseString("<doc a=''/>")
@@ -656,29 +655,29 @@ def testRemoveNamedItemNS(self):
         self.assertRaises(xml.dom.NotFoundErr, attrs.removeNamedItemNS,
                           "http://xml.python.org/", "b")
 
-    def testAttrListValues(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListValues(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrListLength(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrListLength(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrList__getitem__(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrList__getitem__(self): pass
 
-    def testAttrList__setitem__(self): pass
+    ## def testAttrList__setitem__(self): pass
 
-    def testSetAttrValueandNodeValue(self): pass
+    ## def testSetAttrValueandNodeValue(self): pass
 
-    def testParseElement(self): pass
+    ## def testParseElement(self): pass
 
-    def testParseAttributes(self): pass
+    ## def testParseAttributes(self): pass
 
-    def testParseElementNamespaces(self): pass
+    ## def testParseElementNamespaces(self): pass
 
-    def testParseAttributeNamespaces(self): pass
+    ## def testParseAttributeNamespaces(self): pass
 
-    def testParseProcessingInstructions(self): pass
+    ## def testParseProcessingInstructions(self): pass
 
-    def testChildNodes(self): pass
+    ## def testChildNodes(self): pass
 
-    def testFirstChild(self): pass
+    ## def testFirstChild(self): pass
 
     def testHasChildNodes(self):
         dom = parseString("<doc><foo/></doc>")