diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLoggerTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLoggerTest.java
index 78271e935..fc165a7c0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLoggerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/XMLLoggerTest.java
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ public class XMLLoggerTest {
         assertEquals("last line.", "</checkstyle>", lines[lines.length - 1]);
     }
 
-    private static class TestException extends Exception {
+    private static class TestException extends RuntimeException {
 
         private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;