diff --git a/guava/pom.xml b/guava/pom.xml
index ca9e1e528e..e2538d090b 100644
--- a/guava/pom.xml
+++ b/guava/pom.xml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <!-- util -->
-        <guava.version>21.0</guava.version>
+        <guava.version>24.0-jre</guava.version>
         <commons-lang3.version>3.5</commons-lang3.version>
         <commons-collections4.version>4.1</commons-collections4.version>
 
diff --git a/guava/src/test/java/org/baeldung/guava/GuavaCountingOutputStreamTest.java b/guava/src/test/java/org/baeldung/guava/GuavaCountingOutputStreamTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5e96f3597c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guava/src/test/java/org/baeldung/guava/GuavaCountingOutputStreamTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package org.baeldung.guava;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.google.common.io.CountingOutputStream;
+
+public class GuavaCountingOutputStreamTest {
+    public static final int MAX = 5;
+
+    @Test(expected = RuntimeException.class)
+    public void givenData_whenCountReachesLimit_thenThrowException() throws Exception {
+        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        CountingOutputStream cos = new CountingOutputStream(out);
+
+        byte[] data = new byte[1024];
+        ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
+
+        int b;
+        while ((b = in.read()) != -1) {
+            cos.write(b);
+            if (cos.getCount() >= MAX) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("Write limit reached");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}