diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index 48a9c263e..b0c2d1c6d 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ def test_escaped_skipreason_issue3533(
 
 
 def test_bin_escaped_skipreason(pytester: Pytester, run_and_parse: RunAndParse) -> None:
-    """Special characters are skipped from mark.skip reason (#11842)."""
+    """Escape special characters from mark.skip reason (#11842)."""
     pytester.makepyfile(
         """
         import pytest