diff --git a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/testing.adoc b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/testing.adoc
index b19eef3036..5f653cf25c 100644
--- a/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/testing.adoc
+++ b/spring-kafka-docs/src/main/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/testing.adoc
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ The following example configuration creates topics called `cat` and `hat` with f
 public class MyTests {
 
     @ClassRule
-    private static EmbeddedKafkaRule embeddedKafka = new EmbeddedKafkaRule(1, false, 5, "cat", "hat");
+    public static EmbeddedKafkaRule embeddedKafka = new EmbeddedKafkaRule(1, false, 5, "cat", "hat");
 
     @Test
     public void test() {