diff --git a/org.springframework.integration/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChainParserTests-context.xml b/org.springframework.integration/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChainParserTests-context.xml
index c2631abea5..510b836e86 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChainParserTests-context.xml
+++ b/org.springframework.integration/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChainParserTests-context.xml
@@ -100,6 +100,4 @@
 		<beans:property name="replyMessageText" value="foo" />
 	</beans:bean>
 
-	<beans:bean id="testOutbound" class="org.springframework.integration.config.TestOutboundAdapter"/>
-
 </beans:beans>