diff --git a/bigtable-hbase-dataflow/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/dataflow/CloudBigtableIOIntegrationTest.java b/bigtable-hbase-dataflow/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/dataflow/CloudBigtableIOIntegrationTest.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/bigtable-hbase-dataflow/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/dataflow/CloudBigtableIOIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/bigtable-hbase-dataflow/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/dataflow/CloudBigtableIOIntegrationTest.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public class CloudBigtableIOIntegrationTest {
   }
 
   @AfterClass
-  public static void shutdown() {
+  public static void shutdown() throws IOException {
     connection.close();
   }
Fixing a compilation issue caused by IOException in Connection.close().