diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_djangoitem/settings.py b/scrapy/tests/test_djangoitem/settings.py
index 6ece9ee7a..e3300db9d 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_djangoitem/settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_djangoitem/settings.py
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
-DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'
-DATABASE_NAME = ':memory:'
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+        'NAME': ':memory:',
+    }
+}