diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 469c4291c..fa2b34ff1 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -1657,7 +1657,7 @@ def test_bin_escaped_skipreason(pytester: Pytester, run_and_parse: RunAndParse)
     pytester.makepyfile(
         """
         import pytest
-        @pytest.mark.skip("\33[31;1red\33[0m")
+        @pytest.mark.skip("\33[31;1mred\33[0m")
         def test_skip():
             pass
     """