diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/issue315_query/issue315_query.1.ddl.aql b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/issue315_query/issue315_query.1.ddl.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..770aa1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/issue315_query/issue315_query.1.ddl.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * Description  : Create and load a dataset but provide an invalid path argument with a missing ':'
+ * Expected Res : Failure
+ * Date         : 16 Jan 2012
+ */
+drop dataverse test if exists;
+create dataverse test;
+use dataverse test;
+
+create type Schema as closed{
+id: int32,
+age: int32,
+name: string
+}
+
+create dataset onektup(Schema)
+primary key id;
+
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/issue315_query/issue315_query.2.update.aql b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/issue315_query/issue315_query.2.update.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27d8215
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/load/issue315_query/issue315_query.2.update.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+/*
+ * Description  : Create and load a dataset but provide an invalid path with a missing ':'
+ * Expected Res : Failure
+ * Date         : 5 Apr 2013
+ */
+use dataverse test;
+
+load dataset onektup 
+using localfs(("path"="nc1///tmp/one.adm"));
+
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml
index f6b3192..b730b41 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/testsuite.xml
@@ -4052,6 +4052,12 @@
       </compilation-unit>
     </test-case>
     <test-case FilePath="load">
+      <compilation-unit name="issue315_query">
+        <output-dir compare="Text">none</output-dir>
+        <expected-error>edu.uci.ics.asterix.common.exceptions.AsterixException</expected-error> 
+      </compilation-unit>
+    </test-case>
+    <test-case FilePath="load">
       <compilation-unit name="issue289_query">
         <output-dir compare="Text">issue289_query</output-dir>
       </compilation-unit>