diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index ef83a769431a..a47e7e9ed7a5 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@
           <groups>com.google.cloud.spanner.IntegrationTest</groups>
           <excludedGroups>com.google.cloud.spanner.FlakyTest</excludedGroups>
         </configuration>
+        <dependencies>
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
+            <artifactId>surefire-junit47</artifactId>
+            <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
+          </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <goals>