diff --git a/tests/test_crawler.py b/tests/test_crawler.py
index b43a5826c..60b92377d 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawler.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawler.py
@@ -524,23 +524,25 @@ class CrawlerProcessSubprocess(ScriptRunnerMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn("The value of FOO is 42", log)
 
     def test_shutdown_graceful(self):
+        sig = signal.SIGINT if sys.platform != "win32" else signal.SIGBREAK
         args = self.get_script_args("sleeping.py")
         p = PopenSpawn(args, timeout=5)
         p.expect_exact("Spider opened")
         p.expect_exact("Crawled (200)")
-        p.kill(signal.SIGINT)
+        p.kill(sig)
         p.expect_exact("shutting down gracefully")
         p.expect_exact("Spider closed (shutdown)")
         p.wait()
 
     def test_shutdown_forced(self):
+        sig = signal.SIGINT if sys.platform != "win32" else signal.SIGBREAK
         args = self.get_script_args("sleeping.py")
         p = PopenSpawn(args, timeout=5)
         p.expect_exact("Spider opened")
         p.expect_exact("Crawled (200)")
-        p.kill(signal.SIGINT)
+        p.kill(sig)
         p.expect_exact("shutting down gracefully")
-        p.kill(signal.SIGINT)
+        p.kill(sig)
         p.expect_exact("forcing unclean shutdown")
         p.wait()