diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/rc_util.go b/test/e2e/framework/rc_util.go
index a64a9e943fa..249ae86f742 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/rc_util.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/rc_util.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
+	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
 
 	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ func ScaleRCByLabels(clientset clientset.Interface, scalesGetter scaleclient.Sca
 
 type updateRcFunc func(d *v1.ReplicationController)
 
+// UpdateReplicationControllerWithRetries retries updating the given rc on conflict with the following steps:
+// 1. Get latest resource
+// 2. applyUpdate
+// 3. Update the resource
 func UpdateReplicationControllerWithRetries(c clientset.Interface, namespace, name string, applyUpdate updateRcFunc) (*v1.ReplicationController, error) {
 	var rc *v1.ReplicationController
 	var updateErr error
@@ -152,12 +156,15 @@ func DeleteRCAndWaitForGC(c clientset.Interface, ns, name string) error {
 	return DeleteResourceAndWaitForGC(c, api.Kind("ReplicationController"), ns, name)
 }
 
+// ScaleRC scales Replication Controller to be desired size.
 func ScaleRC(clientset clientset.Interface, scalesGetter scaleclient.ScalesGetter, ns, name string, size uint, wait bool) error {
 	return ScaleResource(clientset, scalesGetter, ns, name, size, wait, api.Kind("ReplicationController"), api.Resource("replicationcontrollers"))
 }
 
+// RunRC Launches (and verifies correctness) of a Replication Controller
+// and will wait for all pods it spawns to become "Running".
 func RunRC(config testutils.RCConfig) error {
-	By(fmt.Sprintf("creating replication controller %s in namespace %s", config.Name, config.Namespace))
+	ginkgo.By(fmt.Sprintf("creating replication controller %s in namespace %s", config.Name, config.Namespace))
 	config.NodeDumpFunc = DumpNodeDebugInfo
 	config.ContainerDumpFunc = LogFailedContainers
 	return testutils.RunRC(config)
@@ -180,10 +187,9 @@ func WaitForReplicationController(c clientset.Interface, namespace, name string,
 		if err != nil {
 			Logf("Get ReplicationController %s in namespace %s failed (%v).", name, namespace, err)
 			return !exist, nil
-		} else {
-			Logf("ReplicationController %s in namespace %s found.", name, namespace)
-			return exist, nil
 		}
+		Logf("ReplicationController %s in namespace %s found.", name, namespace)
+		return exist, nil
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		stateMsg := map[bool]string{true: "to appear", false: "to disappear"}
@@ -249,13 +255,13 @@ func ValidateController(c clientset.Interface, containerImage string, replicas i
 
 	getImageTemplate := fmt.Sprintf(`--template={{if (exists . "spec" "containers")}}{{range .spec.containers}}{{if eq .name "%s"}}{{.image}}{{end}}{{end}}{{end}}`, containername)
 
-	By(fmt.Sprintf("waiting for all containers in %s pods to come up.", testname)) //testname should be selector
+	ginkgo.By(fmt.Sprintf("waiting for all containers in %s pods to come up.", testname)) //testname should be selector
 waitLoop:
 	for start := time.Now(); time.Since(start) < PodStartTimeout; time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) {
 		getPodsOutput := RunKubectlOrDie("get", "pods", "-o", "template", getPodsTemplate, "-l", testname, fmt.Sprintf("--namespace=%v", ns))
 		pods := strings.Fields(getPodsOutput)
 		if numPods := len(pods); numPods != replicas {
-			By(fmt.Sprintf("Replicas for %s: expected=%d actual=%d", testname, replicas, numPods))
+			ginkgo.By(fmt.Sprintf("Replicas for %s: expected=%d actual=%d", testname, replicas, numPods))
 			continue
 		}
 		var runningPods []string