diff --git a/java/resource-overrides/src/test/java/software/amazon/awscdk/examples/ResourceOverridesStackTest.java b/java/resource-overrides/src/test/java/software/amazon/awscdk/examples/ResourceOverridesStackTest.java
index ecefd4acc..e956437d3 100644
--- a/java/resource-overrides/src/test/java/software/amazon/awscdk/examples/ResourceOverridesStackTest.java
+++ b/java/resource-overrides/src/test/java/software/amazon/awscdk/examples/ResourceOverridesStackTest.java
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ public void shouldGenerateValidCloudFormationTemplate() throws Exception {
     App app = new App();
     Stack stack = new ResourceOverridesStack(app, "resource-overrides");
 
-    String actual = getStackTemplateJson(stack).toPrettyString();
-    String expected = readJsonFromResource("testResourceOverrides.expected.json").toPrettyString();
+    String actual = getStackTemplateJson(stack).toString();
+    String expected = readJsonFromResource("testResourceOverrides.expected.json").toString();
 
     JSONAssert.assertEquals(expected, actual, JSONCompareMode.LENIENT);
   }