diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/IteratorTestCase.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/IteratorTestCase.php
index 504cfb01b1..5f74f38095 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/IteratorTestCase.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/IteratorTestCase.php
@@ -34,6 +34,31 @@ abstract class IteratorTestCase extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->assertEquals($expected, array_values($values));
     }
 
+    /**
+     *  Same as assertOrderedIterator, but checks the order of groups of
+     *  array elements.
+     *
+     *  @param array $expected - an array of arrays. For any two subarrays
+     *      $a and $b such that $a goes before $b in $expected, the method
+     *      asserts that any element of $a goes before any element of $b
+     *      in the sequence generated by $iterator
+     *  @param \Traversable $iterator
+     */
+    protected function assertOrderedIteratorForGroups($expected, \Traversable $iterator)
+    {
+        $values = array_values(array_map(function (\SplFileInfo $fileinfo) { return $fileinfo->getPathname(); }, iterator_to_array($iterator)));
+
+        foreach ($expected as $subarray) {
+            $temp = array();
+            while (count($values) && count($temp) < count($subarray)) {
+                array_push($temp, array_shift($values));
+            }
+            sort($temp);
+            sort($subarray);
+            $this->assertEquals($subarray, $temp);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Same as IteratorTestCase::assertIterator with foreach usage
      *
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/RealIteratorTestCase.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/RealIteratorTestCase.php
index 8aa5c89d82..2a7383dc0a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/RealIteratorTestCase.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/RealIteratorTestCase.php
@@ -80,7 +80,11 @@ abstract class RealIteratorTestCase extends IteratorTestCase
         if (is_array($files)) {
             $f = array();
             foreach ($files as $file) {
-                $f[] = self::$tmpDir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $file);
+                if (is_array($file)) {
+                    $f[] = self::toAbsolute($file);
+                } else {
+                    $f[] = self::$tmpDir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.str_replace('/', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $file);
+                }
             }
 
             return $f;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/SortableIteratorTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/SortableIteratorTest.php
index f4def17a18..e2f433f8e7 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/SortableIteratorTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Finder/Tests/Iterator/SortableIteratorTest.php
@@ -54,7 +54,13 @@ class SortableIteratorTest extends RealIteratorTestCase
 
         $iterator = new SortableIterator($inner, $mode);
 
-        $this->assertOrderedIterator($expected, $iterator);
+        if ($mode === SortableIterator::SORT_BY_ACCESSED_TIME
+            || $mode === SortableIterator::SORT_BY_CHANGED_TIME
+            || $mode === SortableIterator::SORT_BY_MODIFIED_TIME) {
+            $this->assertOrderedIteratorForGroups($expected, $iterator);
+        } else {
+            $this->assertOrderedIterator($expected, $iterator);
+        }
     }
 
     public function getAcceptData()
@@ -102,45 +108,53 @@ class SortableIteratorTest extends RealIteratorTestCase
         );
 
         $sortByAccessedTime = array(
-            'foo/bar.tmp',
-            'test.php',
-            'toto',
-            'foo bar',
-            'foo',
-            'test.py',
-            '.foo',
-            '.foo/.bar',
-            '.foo/bar',
-            '.git',
-            '.bar',
+            // For these two files the access time was set to 2005-10-15
+            array('foo/bar.tmp', 'test.php'),
+            // These files were created more or less at the same time
+            array(
+                '.git',
+                '.foo',
+                '.foo/.bar',
+                '.foo/bar',
+                'test.py',
+                'foo',
+                'toto',
+                'foo bar',
+            ),
+            // This file was accessed after sleeping for 1 sec
+            array('.bar'),
         );
 
         $sortByChangedTime = array(
-            'foo',
-            'foo/bar.tmp',
-            'toto',
-            '.git',
-            '.bar',
-            '.foo',
-            'foo bar',
-            '.foo/.bar',
-            '.foo/bar',
-            'test.php',
-            'test.py',
+            array(
+                '.git',
+                '.foo',
+                '.foo/.bar',
+                '.foo/bar',
+                '.bar',
+                'foo',
+                'foo/bar.tmp',
+                'toto',
+                'foo bar',
+            ),
+            array('test.php'),
+            array('test.py'),
         );
 
         $sortByModifiedTime = array(
-            'foo/bar.tmp',
-            'foo',
-            'toto',
-            '.git',
-            '.bar',
-            '.foo',
-            'foo bar',
-            '.foo/.bar',
-            '.foo/bar',
-            'test.php',
-            'test.py',
+            array(
+                '.git',
+                '.foo',
+                '.foo/.bar',
+                '.foo/bar',
+                '.bar',
+                'foo',
+                'foo/bar.tmp',
+                'toto',
+                'foo bar',
+            ),
+            array('test.php'),
+            array('test.py'),
         );
 
         return array(