diff --git a/identity_type/doc/identity_type.qbk b/identity_type/doc/identity_type.qbk
index d5107a3..2723d33 100644
--- a/identity_type/doc/identity_type.qbk
+++ b/identity_type/doc/identity_type.qbk
@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@
 
 This library allows to wrap type expressions within round parenthesis so they can be passed to macros even when they contain commas.
 
-[import ../test/var_err.cpp]
+[import ../test/var_error.cpp]
 [import ../test/var.cpp]
 [import ../test/template.cpp]
 [import ../test/tmp_assert.cpp]
 
 [section Motivation]
 
-Consider the following macro which declares a variable named `var`/n/ with the specified /type/ (see also [@../../test/var_err.cpp =var_err.cpp=]):
+Consider the following macro which declares a variable named `var`/n/ with the specified /type/ (see also [@../../test/var_error.cpp =var_error.cpp=]):
 
-[var_err]
+[var_error]
 
 The first macro invocation works correctly declaring a variable named `var1` of type `int`.
 However, the second macro invocation fails generating a preprocessor error similar to the following:
diff --git a/identity_type/test/Jamfile.v2 b/identity_type/test/Jamfile.v2
index 2f0bdac..482c0c0 100644
--- a/identity_type/test/Jamfile.v2
+++ b/identity_type/test/Jamfile.v2
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 import testing ;
 
-compile-fail var_err.cpp ;
+compile-fail var_error.cpp ;
 run var.cpp ;
 run template.cpp ;
 run tmp_assert.cpp ;
diff --git a/identity_type/test/var_err.cpp b/identity_type/test/var_error.cpp
similarity index 97%
rename from identity_type/test/var_err.cpp
rename to identity_type/test/var_error.cpp
index 7ba0c52..b69817d 100644
--- a/identity_type/test/var_err.cpp
+++ b/identity_type/test/var_error.cpp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 #include <map>
 
-//[var_err
+//[var_error
 #define VAR(type, n) type var ## n
 
 VAR( int, 1 );                  // OK.