diff --git a/sbe-tool/src/test/java/uk/co/real_logic/sbe/generation/java/JavaGeneratorTest.java b/sbe-tool/src/test/java/uk/co/real_logic/sbe/generation/java/JavaGeneratorTest.java
index bdaefa43db..3a9064b810 100644
--- a/sbe-tool/src/test/java/uk/co/real_logic/sbe/generation/java/JavaGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/sbe-tool/src/test/java/uk/co/real_logic/sbe/generation/java/JavaGeneratorTest.java
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ public void shouldGenerateRepeatingGroupCountLimits() throws Exception
     public void shouldMarkDeprecatedClasses() throws Exception
     {
         final ParserOptions options = ParserOptions.builder().stopOnError(true).build();
-        final MessageSchema schema = parse(Tests.getLocalResource("since-deprecated-test-schema.xml"), options);
+        final MessageSchema schema = parse(Tests.getLocalResource("deprecated-msg-test-schema.xml"), options);
         final IrGenerator irg = new IrGenerator();
         ir = irg.generate(schema);
 
diff --git a/sbe-tool/src/test/resources/deprecated-msg-test-schema.xml b/sbe-tool/src/test/resources/deprecated-msg-test-schema.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e7ed27e445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sbe-tool/src/test/resources/deprecated-msg-test-schema.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<sbe:messageSchema xmlns:sbe="http://fixprotocol.io/2016/sbe"
+                   package="since.deprecated"
+                   id="876"
+                   version="4"
+                   semanticVersion="5.2"
+                   description="Issue 876 - Test case for Deprecated messages for Java"
+                   byteOrder="littleEndian">
+    <types>
+        <composite name="messageHeader" description="Message identifiers and length of message root">
+            <type name="blockLength" primitiveType="uint16"/>
+            <type name="templateId" primitiveType="uint16"/>
+            <type name="schemaId" primitiveType="uint16"/>
+            <type name="version" primitiveType="uint16"/>
+        </composite>
+    </types>
+    <sbe:message name="DeprecatedMessage" id="1" semanticType="n/a" description="Message deprecated since version 3" deprecated="3">
+        <field name="v1" id="1" type="uint64" />
+    </sbe:message>
+</sbe:messageSchema>