diff --git a/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/CommandLineTest.java b/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/CommandLineTest.java
index d575f9c3e2f..b1673b80a29 100644
--- a/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/CommandLineTest.java
+++ b/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/CommandLineTest.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
 import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeTrue;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments.arguments;
 
 import datadog.environment.CommandLineHelper.Result;
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ private static void skipArgFileTestOnJava8(RunArguments arguments) {
       }
     }
     if (useArgFile) {
-      assumeFalse(System.getProperty("java.home").matches(".*[-/]8[./].*"));
+      assumeTrue(JavaVirtualMachine.isJavaVersionAtLeast(9));
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/JavaVirtualMachineTest.java b/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/JavaVirtualMachineTest.java
index 62b0ad3307f..8a8d1104e0d 100644
--- a/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/JavaVirtualMachineTest.java
+++ b/components/environment/src/test/java/datadog/environment/JavaVirtualMachineTest.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void onlyOnGraalVm() {
   void onlyOnIbm8() {
     assertFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isGraalVM());
     assertTrue(JavaVirtualMachine.isIbm8());
-    assertFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isJ9());
+    assertTrue(JavaVirtualMachine.isJ9());
     assertFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isOracleJDK8());
   }
 
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ void onlyOnIbm8() {
   @EnabledIfSystemProperty(named = "java.vm.name", matches = ".*J9.*")
   void onlyOnJ9() {
     assertFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isGraalVM());
-    assertFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isIbm8());
     assertTrue(JavaVirtualMachine.isJ9());
     assertFalse(JavaVirtualMachine.isOracleJDK8());
   }