diff --git a/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/pom.xml
index d003ba54..553b65a1 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/pom.xml
@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@
 	<artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job</artifactId>
 
 	<properties>
-		<test.containers.version>1.15.3</test.containers.version>
-		<test.rabbit.containers.version>1.15.3</test.rabbit.containers.version>
+		<test.containers.version>1.16.0</test.containers.version>
+		<test.rabbit.containers.version>1.16.0</test.rabbit.containers.version>
 		<test.ducttape.version>1.0.8</test.ducttape.version>
-		<spring-kafka-version>2.8.0-RC1</spring-kafka-version>
-		<spring-cloud-stream.version>3.2.0-SNAPSHOT</spring-cloud-stream.version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<dependencies>
@@ -83,11 +81,6 @@
 			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
 			<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
-			<artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-cloud-stream.version}</version>
-		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
@@ -106,13 +99,11 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-kafka-test</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-kafka-version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
-			<version>${spring-kafka-version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
diff --git a/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests.java b/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests.java
index 70b38a48..900d7033 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests.java
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.NewTopic;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Producer;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import org.springframework.batch.core.Job;
 import org.springframework.batch.core.JobExecution;
@@ -45,16 +47,17 @@ import org.springframework.kafka.core.DefaultKafkaProducerFactory;
 import org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonDeserializer;
 import org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonSerializer;
 import org.springframework.kafka.test.EmbeddedKafkaBroker;
+import org.springframework.kafka.test.context.EmbeddedKafka;
 import org.springframework.kafka.test.utils.KafkaTestUtils;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
-//@EmbeddedKafka(partitions = 1, topics = { "test" })
+@EmbeddedKafka(partitions = 1, topics = { "test" })
 public class KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests {
 
 	private static EmbeddedKafkaBroker embeddedKafkaBroker;
 
-//	@BeforeAll
+	@BeforeAll
 	public static void setupTest(EmbeddedKafkaBroker embeddedKafka) {
 		embeddedKafkaBroker = embeddedKafka;
 		embeddedKafka.addTopics(new NewTopic("topic1", 1, (short) 1),
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ public class KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests {
 				new NewTopic("topic3", 1, (short) 1));
 	}
 
-//	@Test
+	@Test
 	public void testBaseKafkaItemReader() {
 		final String topicName = "topic1";
 		populateSingleTopic(topicName);
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ public class KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests {
 		});
 	}
 
-//	@Test
+	@Test
 	public void testBaseKafkaItemReaderMultiplePartitions() {
 		final String topicName = "topic2";
 		populateSingleTopic(topicName);
@@ -151,7 +154,7 @@ public class KafkaItemReaderAutoConfigurationTests {
 		});
 	}
 
-//	@Test
+	@Test
 	public void testBaseKafkaItemReaderPollTimeoutDefault() {
 		final String topicName = "topic3";
 		populateSingleTopic(topicName);
diff --git a/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemWriterTests.java b/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemWriterTests.java
index 38ff53cf..102e36b2 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemWriterTests.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-starter-single-step-batch-job/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/task/batch/autoconfigure/kafka/KafkaItemWriterTests.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.Consumer;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecords;
 import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import org.springframework.batch.core.Job;
 import org.springframework.batch.core.JobExecution;
@@ -43,23 +45,24 @@ import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory;
 import org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonDeserializer;
 import org.springframework.kafka.test.EmbeddedKafkaBroker;
+import org.springframework.kafka.test.context.EmbeddedKafka;
 import org.springframework.kafka.test.utils.KafkaTestUtils;
 
 import static java.util.Collections.singleton;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
-// @EmbeddedKafka(partitions = 1, topics = { "topic1" })
+@EmbeddedKafka(partitions = 1, topics = { "topic1" })
 public class KafkaItemWriterTests {
 
 	private static EmbeddedKafkaBroker embeddedKafkaBroker;
 
-// 	@BeforeAll
+	@BeforeAll
 	public static void setupTest(EmbeddedKafkaBroker embeddedKafka) {
 		embeddedKafkaBroker = embeddedKafka;
 		embeddedKafka.addTopics("topic2");
 	}
 
-//	@Test
+	@Test
 	public void testBaseKafkaItemWriter() {
 		final String topicName = "topic1";
 		ApplicationContextRunner applicationContextRunner = new ApplicationContextRunner()
diff --git a/spring-cloud-task-integration-tests/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-task-integration-tests/pom.xml
index 8e76c78b..e4a776a0 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-task-integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-task-integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 	<artifactId>spring-cloud-task-integration-tests</artifactId>
 
 	<properties>
-		<test.containers.version>1.15.3</test.containers.version>
-		<test.rabbit.containers.version>1.15.3</test.rabbit.containers.version>
+		<test.containers.version>1.16.0</test.containers.version>
+		<test.rabbit.containers.version>1.16.0</test.rabbit.containers.version>
 		<test.ducttape.version>1.0.8</test.ducttape.version>
 	</properties>
 
diff --git a/spring-cloud-task-samples/batch-events/pom.xml b/spring-cloud-task-samples/batch-events/pom.xml
index bf301a0b..eba5077f 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-task-samples/batch-events/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-cloud-task-samples/batch-events/pom.xml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
-		<test.containers.version>1.15.3</test.containers.version>
-		<test.rabbit.containers.version>1.15.3</test.rabbit.containers.version>
+		<test.containers.version>1.16.0</test.containers.version>
+		<test.rabbit.containers.version>1.16.0</test.rabbit.containers.version>
 		<test.ducttape.version>1.0.8</test.ducttape.version>
 		<spring.cloud.stream>3.2.0-SNAPSHOT</spring.cloud.stream>
 	</properties>