diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBeanTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBeanTest.java
index 11c83ae28..3b986d360 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBeanTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBeanTest.java
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public class AutomaticBeanTest {
     }
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unused")
-    public class TestBean extends AutomaticBean {
+    public static class TestBean extends AutomaticBean {
 
         private String privateField;