diff --git a/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/DefaultPartitionerTest.java b/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/DefaultPartitionerTest.java
index c851408f3633c..2af61806a34e7 100644
--- a/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/DefaultPartitionerTest.java
+++ b/clients/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/DefaultPartitionerTest.java
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public void testKeyPartitionIsStable() {
         final Partitioner partitioner = new DefaultPartitioner();
         final Cluster cluster = new Cluster("clusterId", asList(NODES), PARTITIONS,
             Collections.emptySet(), Collections.emptySet());
-        int partition = partitioner.partition("test",  null, KEY_BYTES, null, null, cluster);
-        assertEquals(partition, partitioner.partition("test", null, KEY_BYTES, null, null, cluster), "Same key should yield same partition");
+        int partition = partitioner.partition(TOPIC,  null, KEY_BYTES, null, null, cluster);
+        assertEquals(partition, partitioner.partition(TOPIC, null, KEY_BYTES, null, null, cluster), "Same key should yield same partition");
     }
 }