diff --git a/scripts/test/ISISPowderCommonTest.py b/scripts/test/ISISPowderCommonTest.py
index 1538e0fcbdfdd9c93fb16a7a7e296dda5bcff9c6..532bfff2fee30504795e2bd15987bacc6a78f2a1 100644
--- a/scripts/test/ISISPowderCommonTest.py
+++ b/scripts/test/ISISPowderCommonTest.py
@@ -16,17 +16,16 @@ class ISISPowderCommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_cal_map_dict_helper(self):
         missing_key_name = "wrong_key"
         correct_key_name = "right_key"
-        dict_without_key = {correct_key_name: None}
         dict_with_key = {correct_key_name: 123}
 
         # Check it correctly raises
         with self.assertRaisesRegexp(KeyError, "The field '" + missing_key_name + "' is required"):
-            common.cal_map_dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=dict_without_key, key=missing_key_name)
+            common.cal_map_dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=dict_with_key, key=missing_key_name)
 
         # Check it correctly appends the passed error message when raising
         appended_e_msg = "test append message"
         with self.assertRaisesRegexp(KeyError, appended_e_msg):
-            common.cal_map_dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=dict_without_key, key=missing_key_name,
+            common.cal_map_dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=dict_with_key, key=missing_key_name,
                                                  append_to_error_message=appended_e_msg)
 
         # Check that it correctly returns the key value where it exists
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ class ISISPowderCommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
         for i in range(0, 3):
             out_name = "crop_banks_in_tof-" + str(i)
             cropping_value_list.append(cropping_value)
-            bank_list.append(mantid.CreateSampleWorkspace(OutputWorkspace=out_name, XMin=0, XMax=20000, BinWidth=1))
+            bank_list.append(mantid.CreateSampleWorkspace(OutputWorkspace=out_name, XMin=0, XMax=1100, BinWidth=1))
 
         # Check a list of WS and single cropping value is detected
         with self.assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, "The cropping values were not in a list type"):
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ class ISISPowderCommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         for i in range(0, 3):
             out_name = "crop_banks_in_tof-" + str(i)
-            ws_list.append(mantid.CreateSampleWorkspace(OutputWorkspace=out_name, XMin=0, XMax=20000, BinWidth=1))
+            ws_list.append(mantid.CreateSampleWorkspace(OutputWorkspace=out_name, XMin=0, XMax=600, BinWidth=1))
 
         # Crop a single workspace in TOF
         tof_single_ws = common.crop_in_tof(ws_to_crop=ws_list[0], x_min=x_min, x_max=x_max)
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ class ISISPowderCommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # Checks that crop_in_tof converts to TOF before cropping
         ws_list = []
         x_min = 100
-        x_max = 500  # Crop to 0-500 microseconds for unit tests
+        x_max = 200
         expected_number_of_bins = 20000  # Hard code number of expected bins for dSpacing
 
         for i in range(0, 3):
@@ -111,5 +110,33 @@ class ISISPowderCommonTest(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(ws.getNumberBins(), expected_number_of_bins)
             mantid.DeleteWorkspace(ws)
 
+    def test_dictionary_key_helper(self):
+        good_key_name = "key_exists"
+        bad_key_name = "key_does_not_exist"
+
+        test_dictionary = {good_key_name: 123}
+
+        e_msg = "test message"
+
+        with self.assertRaises(KeyError):
+            common.dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=test_dictionary, key=bad_key_name)
+
+        with self.assertRaisesRegexp(KeyError, e_msg):
+            common.dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=test_dictionary, key=bad_key_name, exception_msg=e_msg)
+
+        self.assertEqual(common.dictionary_key_helper(dictionary=test_dictionary, key=good_key_name), 123)
+
+    def test_extract_ws_spectra(self):
+        number_of_expected_banks = 5
+        ws_to_split = mantid.CreateSampleWorkspace(XMin=0, XMax=1, BankPixelWidth=1,
+                                                   NumBanks=number_of_expected_banks)
+        input_name = ws_to_split.getName()
+
+        extracted_banks = common.extract_ws_spectra(ws_to_split=ws_to_split)
+        self.assertEqual(len(extracted_banks), number_of_expected_banks)
+        for i, ws in enumerate(extracted_banks):
+            expected_name = input_name + '-' + str(i + 1)
+            self.assertEqual(expected_name, ws.getName())
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()