diff --git a/kie-api/pom.xml b/kie-api/pom.xml
index c069d04cf26..b80233fc0d3 100644
--- a/kie-api/pom.xml
+++ b/kie-api/pom.xml
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>junit</groupId>
-      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
+    </dependency>    
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
       <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/KModuleXSDTest.java b/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/KModuleXSDTest.java
index 172165a00cc..c432110fa0c 100644
--- a/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/KModuleXSDTest.java
+++ b/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/KModuleXSDTest.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
 import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
 
-import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
 
diff --git a/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/io/ResourceTypeTest.java b/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/io/ResourceTypeTest.java
index 95ad217e06e..ccdd483aac4 100644
--- a/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/io/ResourceTypeTest.java
+++ b/kie-api/src/test/java/org/kie/api/io/ResourceTypeTest.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;