diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/VisibleForTesting.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/VisibleForTesting.java
index 1aa76eaec61..6b405ae9729 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/VisibleForTesting.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/VisibleForTesting.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  * they MUST be re-scoped as public/limited private.
  */
 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
-@Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD })
+@Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR })
 @Documented
 public @interface VisibleForTesting {
 }