diff --git a/google-cloud-pubsub/pom.xml b/google-cloud-pubsub/pom.xml
index 45e874ef7..025523565 100644
--- a/google-cloud-pubsub/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-pubsub/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-inprocess</artifactId>
-      <scope>runtime</scope>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.errorprone</groupId>