diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkFunSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkFunSuite.scala
index 0327dfad6ea5..8cb344332668 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkFunSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkFunSuite.scala
@@ -17,12 +17,14 @@
package org.apache.spark
+// scalastyle:off
import org.scalatest.{FunSuite, Outcome}
/**
* Base abstract class for all unit tests in Spark for handling common functionality.
*/
private[spark] abstract class SparkFunSuite extends FunSuite with Logging {
+// scalastyle:on
/**
* Log the suite name and the test name before and after each test.
diff --git a/external/flume-sink/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/flume/sink/SparkSinkSuite.scala b/external/flume-sink/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/flume/sink/SparkSinkSuite.scala
index 650b2fbe1c14..605b3fe71017 100644
--- a/external/flume-sink/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/flume/sink/SparkSinkSuite.scala
+++ b/external/flume-sink/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/flume/sink/SparkSinkSuite.scala
@@ -31,9 +31,18 @@ import org.apache.flume.Context
import org.apache.flume.channel.MemoryChannel
import org.apache.flume.event.EventBuilder
import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannelFactory
+
+// Due to MNG-1378, there is not a way to include test dependencies transitively.
+// We cannot include Spark core tests as a dependency here because it depends on
+// Spark core main, which has too many dependencies to require here manually.
+// For this reason, we continue to use FunSuite and ignore the scalastyle checks
+// that fail if this is detected.
+//scalastyle:off
import org.scalatest.FunSuite
class SparkSinkSuite extends FunSuite {
+//scalastyle:on
+
val eventsPerBatch = 1000
val channelCapacity = 5000
diff --git a/scalastyle-config.xml b/scalastyle-config.xml
index 68c8ce3b7e10..890bf3794925 100644
--- a/scalastyle-config.xml
+++ b/scalastyle-config.xml
@@ -153,4 +153,11 @@
+
+
+
+ ^FunSuite[A-Za-z]*$
+
+ Tests must extend org.apache.spark.SparkFunSuite instead.
+