diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 00049be30e..acde9888ce 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -289,7 +289,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.truth</groupId>
       <artifactId>truth</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
       <exclusions>
         <!-- TODO: consider a different approach -->
         <!-- exclude to resolve conflict with guava -->