diff --git a/java-security-test/src/test/java/com/sap/cloud/security/test/JwtGeneratorTest.java b/java-security-test/src/test/java/com/sap/cloud/security/test/JwtGeneratorTest.java
index ccd16d5ec8..9d0c4fb49b 100644
--- a/java-security-test/src/test/java/com/sap/cloud/security/test/JwtGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/java-security-test/src/test/java/com/sap/cloud/security/test/JwtGeneratorTest.java
@@ -15,13 +15,8 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 import org.mockito.Mockito;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 import java.security.SignatureException;
@@ -49,11 +44,6 @@ public class JwtGeneratorTest {
 	private static RSAKeys keys;
 	private JwtGenerator cut;
 
-	private static final Path RESOURCES_PATH = Paths.get(JwtGeneratorTest.class.getResource("/").getPath());
-
-	@TempDir
-	public static File temporaryFolder;
-
 	@BeforeAll
 	public static void setUpClass() throws Exception {
 		keys = RSAKeys.fromKeyFiles("/publicKey.txt", "/privateKey.txt");
@@ -291,11 +281,8 @@ public void withClaimValue_asJsonObjectContainingList() {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void loadClaimsFromFile_doesNotContainValidJson_throwsException() throws IOException {
-		File emptyFile = File.createTempFile("empty", null, temporaryFolder);
-		String temporaryFolderName = emptyFile.getParentFile().getName();
-		String resourcePath = "/" + temporaryFolderName + "/empty";
-
+	public void loadClaimsFromFile_doesNotContainValidJson_throwsException() {
+		String resourcePath = "/emptyFile.json";
 		assertThatThrownBy(() -> cut.withClaimsFromFile(resourcePath).createToken())
 				.isInstanceOf(JsonParsingException.class);
 	}
diff --git a/java-security-test/src/test/resources/emptyFile.json b/java-security-test/src/test/resources/emptyFile.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2