diff --git a/instrumentation/apache-dubbo-2.7/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/apachedubbo/v2_7/AbstractDubboTraceChainTest.java b/instrumentation/apache-dubbo-2.7/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/apachedubbo/v2_7/AbstractDubboTraceChainTest.java
index cd730d0b5421..6dd53693cabd 100644
--- a/instrumentation/apache-dubbo-2.7/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/apachedubbo/v2_7/AbstractDubboTraceChainTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/apache-dubbo-2.7/testing/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/apachedubbo/v2_7/AbstractDubboTraceChainTest.java
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ void testDubboChain() {
                     span ->
                         span.hasName("org.apache.dubbo.rpc.service.GenericService/$invoke")
                             .hasKind(SpanKind.CLIENT)
+                            .hasParent(trace.getSpan(0))
                             .hasAttributesSatisfyingExactly(
                                 equalTo(RpcIncubatingAttributes.RPC_SYSTEM, "apache_dubbo"),
                                 equalTo(