diff --git a/tests/test_spider.py b/tests/test_spider.py
index e37a7542a..b7ddb37c4 100644
--- a/tests/test_spider.py
+++ b/tests/test_spider.py
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ class TestCrawlSpider(TestSpider):
             name = "test"
             start_url = "https://www.example.com"
 
-        crawler = Crawler(TestSpider)
+        crawler = get_crawler(TestSpider)
         with LogCapture("scrapy.core.engine", propagate=False, level=ERROR) as log:
             yield crawler.crawl()
         log.check(