diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index fad9eb5031..f99fe469f4 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@
              this that the new assertj's `assertj-parent-pom` depends on. -->
           <dependency groupId="org.junit" artifactId="junit-bom" version="5.6.0" type="pom" scope="test"/>
           <!-- when updating assertj, make sure to also update the corresponding junit-bom dependency -->
-          <dependency groupId="org.assertj" artifactId="assertj-core" version="3.15.0" scope="provided"/>
+          <dependency groupId="org.assertj" artifactId="assertj-core" version="3.15.0" scope="test"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.awaitility" artifactId="awaitility" version="4.0.3"  scope="test">
             <exclusion groupId="org.hamcrest" artifactId="hamcrest"/>
           </dependency>
@@ -763,6 +763,7 @@
                 version="${version}"
                 relativePath="${final.name}-parent.pom"/>
         <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" scope="test"/>
+        <dependency groupId="org.assertj" artifactId="assertj-core" scope="test"/>
         <dependency groupId="commons-io" artifactId="commons-io" scope="test"/>
         <dependency groupId="org.mockito" artifactId="mockito-core" scope="test"/>
         <dependency groupId="org.ow2.asm" artifactId="asm" version="${asm.version}"/>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hints/Hint.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hints/Hint.java
index 3089894b7f..79d5073156 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hints/Hint.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hints/Hint.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
 
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@ import org.apache.cassandra.schema.TableId;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Future;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.ImmediateFuture;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.vint.VIntCoding;
-import org.assertj.core.util.VisibleForTesting;
 
 import static org.apache.cassandra.db.TypeSizes.sizeof;
 import static org.apache.cassandra.db.TypeSizes.sizeofUnsignedVInt;
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/BufferPoolAllocator.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/BufferPoolAllocator.java
index 145d03de05..8c55133e3f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/BufferPoolAllocator.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/BufferPoolAllocator.java
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ package org.apache.cassandra.net;
 
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+
 import io.netty.buffer.AbstractByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
@@ -26,7 +28,6 @@ import io.netty.buffer.UnpooledUnsafeDirectByteBuf;
 import org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.BufferType;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.BufferPool;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.memory.BufferPools;
-import org.assertj.core.util.VisibleForTesting;
 
 import static java.lang.Integer.max;
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/reads/range/RangeCommands.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/reads/range/RangeCommands.java
index 5b656d7377..22505447c2 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/reads/range/RangeCommands.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/reads/range/RangeCommands.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 package org.apache.cassandra.service.reads.range;
 
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -34,7 +35,6 @@ import org.apache.cassandra.locator.ReplicaPlans;
 import org.apache.cassandra.schema.TableMetadata;
 import org.apache.cassandra.tracing.Tracing;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities;
-import org.assertj.core.util.VisibleForTesting;
 
 public class RangeCommands
 {