diff --git a/tests/MessageTest.cc b/tests/MessageTest.cc
index 7f1ae4d6..11734ef5 100644
--- a/tests/MessageTest.cc
+++ b/tests/MessageTest.cc
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ TEST(MessageTest, testAllocatedContents) {
     MessageBuilder msgBuilder;
     std::string str = "content";
     char* content = new char[str.length() + 1];
-    strncpy(content, str.c_str(), str.length());
+    memcpy(content, str.c_str(), str.length());
     msgBuilder.setAllocatedContent(content, str.length());
     Message msg = msgBuilder.build();
     ASSERT_FALSE(strncmp("content", (char*)msg.getData(), msg.getLength()));