diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qspan/tst_qspan.cpp b/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qspan/tst_qspan.cpp
index 91d2ecf739a..b8fcd0cdde3 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qspan/tst_qspan.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/tools/qspan/tst_qspan.cpp
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ void tst_QSpan::onlyZeroExtentSpansHaveDefaultCtors() const
 
 void tst_QSpan::zeroExtentSpansMaintainADataPointer() const
 {
-    int i;
+    int i = 0;
     QSpan<int, 0> si{&i, 0};
     QCOMPARE(si.data(), &i);
     check_empty_span_incl_subspans(si);