diff --git a/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt b/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
index cda9aaf3e8..91aaf0adde 100644
--- a/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Core/Code/Testing/DICOMTesting/Testing/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,52 +1,59 @@
 
 MITK_CREATE_MODULE_TESTS(LABELS MITK-Core)
 
 include(mitkFunctionAddTestLabel)
 
 # verify minimum expectations:
 #   files are recognized as DICOM
 #   loading files results in a given number of images
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_NoFiles mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 0)
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_CTImage mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 1 ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/spacing-ok-ct.dcm)
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_MRImage mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 1 ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/spacing-ok-mr.dcm)
 mitkAddCustomModuleTest(mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest_SCImage mitkDICOMTestingSanityTest 1 ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/spacing-ok-sc.dcm)
 
 set(VERIFY_DUMP_CMD VerifyDICOMMitkImageDump)
 
 set(CT_ABDOMEN_DIR ${MITK_DATA_DIR}/TinyCTAbdomen)
 
 # these variables could be passed as parameters to a generic test creation function
 set(CURRENT_DATASET_DIR ${CT_ABDOMEN_DIR})
 set(TESTS_DIR Tests)
 set(INPUT_LISTNAME input)
 set(EXPECTED_DUMP expected.dump)
 
 file(GLOB_RECURSE allInputs ${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${TESTS_DIR}/*/${INPUT_LISTNAME})
 
+function(expectFileExists filename)
+  if (NOT EXISTS ${filename})
+    message(SEND_ERROR "Test case expected file ${filename} which does not exist! Please fix your CMake code or file layout.")
+  endif (NOT EXISTS ${filename})
+endfunction(expectFileExists)
+
 foreach(input ${allInputs})
   string(REGEX REPLACE ".*${TESTS_DIR}/([^/]+)/.*" "\\1" input ${input})
   set(inputfilelist "${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${TESTS_DIR}/${input}/${INPUT_LISTNAME}")
   set(expecteddump "${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${TESTS_DIR}/${input}/${EXPECTED_DUMP}")
   set(testname "DICOM_Load_${input}")
 
-  message(STATUS "Test case '${input}' : CTest test ${testname}")
-  message(STATUS "  Input files in ${inputfilelist}")
-  message(STATUS "  Expected mitk::Image dump in ${expecteddump}")
+  message(STATUS "DICOM loading test case '${input}'")
+  expectFileExists(${inputfilelist})
+  expectFileExists(${expecteddump})
 
   # TODO provide error messages if input not valid
 
+  set(dicomFiles) # clear list
   file(STRINGS ${inputfilelist} rawDicomFiles)
   foreach(raw ${rawDicomFiles})
     set(fileWithFullPath ${CURRENT_DATASET_DIR}/${raw})
     list(APPEND dicomFiles ${fileWithFullPath})
   endforeach(raw ${rawDicomFiles})
 
-  message(STATUS "  Load ${dicomFiles}")
+  #message(STATUS "  Load ${dicomFiles}")
 
   add_test(NAME ${testname}
            COMMAND ${VERIFY_DUMP_CMD} ${expecteddump} ${dicomFiles})
   mitkFunctionAddTestLabel(${testname}) #not yet in branch
 
 endforeach(input allInputs)