diff --git a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/runners/inprocess/EncodabilityEnforcementFactoryTest.java b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/runners/inprocess/EncodabilityEnforcementFactoryTest.java
index fa0cb19917c3..7720589b49a9 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/runners/inprocess/EncodabilityEnforcementFactoryTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/core/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/runners/inprocess/EncodabilityEnforcementFactoryTest.java
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@
 /**
  * Tests for {@link EncodabilityEnforcementFactory}.
  */
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
 public class EncodabilityEnforcementFactoryTest {
   @Rule public ExpectedException thrown = ExpectedException.none();
   private EncodabilityEnforcementFactory factory = EncodabilityEnforcementFactory.create();