diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
index e76c35f50ab..b10280bf3d1 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/pom.xml
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@
           <artifactId>objenesis</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.json</groupId>