diff --git a/dbusmock/testcase.py b/dbusmock/testcase.py
index 1d46b103..2eeff0ff 100644
--- a/dbusmock/testcase.py
+++ b/dbusmock/testcase.py
@@ -153,10 +153,10 @@ def get_dbus(klass, system_bus=False):
                 return dbus.SessionBus()
 
     @classmethod
-    def wait_for_bus_object(klass, dest, path, system_bus=False, timeout=50):
+    def wait_for_bus_object(klass, dest, path, system_bus=False, timeout=600):
         '''Wait for an object to appear on D-BUS
 
-        Raise an exception if object does not appear within 5 seconds. You can
+        Raise an exception if object does not appear within one minute. You can
         change the timeout with the "timeout" keyword argument which specifies
         deciseconds.
         '''