diff --git a/test/UnitTests/Microsoft.Testing.Platform.UnitTests/OutputDevice/Terminal/TerminalTestReporterTests.cs b/test/UnitTests/Microsoft.Testing.Platform.UnitTests/OutputDevice/Terminal/TerminalTestReporterTests.cs
index 07f2fc4ea8..2033c507f8 100644
--- a/test/UnitTests/Microsoft.Testing.Platform.UnitTests/OutputDevice/Terminal/TerminalTestReporterTests.cs
+++ b/test/UnitTests/Microsoft.Testing.Platform.UnitTests/OutputDevice/Terminal/TerminalTestReporterTests.cs
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ public void AssemblyRunCompleted_WhenTestsWereRetried_ShowsRetriedCount()
     public void AssemblyRunCompleted_WhenKnownAssemblyFails_PrintsExecutableSummary()
     {
         var stringBuilderConsole = new StringBuilderConsole();
-        var terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole);
+        TerminalTestReporter terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole);
         terminalReporter.TestExecutionStarted(DateTimeOffset.MinValue, workerCount: 1, isDiscovery: false, isHelp: false, isRetry: false);
 
         string assembly = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ? @"C:\repo\Failing.dll" : "/repo/Failing.dll";
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ public void AssemblyRunCompleted_WhenKnownAssemblySucceeds_DoesNotPrintExecutabl
         // Keep the default ShowAssemblyStartAndComplete: true so the reporter DOES print the per-assembly summary
         // line. Otherwise a zero-exit run writes nothing at all and the DoesNotContain assertion below passes
         // vacuously instead of verifying that the executable-summary block is specifically suppressed on success.
-        var terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole);
+        TerminalTestReporter terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole);
         terminalReporter.TestExecutionStarted(DateTimeOffset.MinValue, workerCount: 1, isDiscovery: false, isHelp: false, isRetry: false);
 
         string assembly = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ? @"C:\repo\Passing.dll" : "/repo/Passing.dll";
@@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ public void AssemblyRunCompleted_WhenKnownAssemblySucceeds_DoesNotPrintExecutabl
     public void TestExecutionCompleted_WhenHandshakeFailures_PrintsRecapAndFailsRun()
     {
         var stringBuilderConsole = new StringBuilderConsole();
-        var terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole, showAssemblyStartAndComplete: false);
+        TerminalTestReporter terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole, showAssemblyStartAndComplete: false);
         terminalReporter.TestExecutionStarted(DateTimeOffset.MinValue, workerCount: 2, isDiscovery: false, isHelp: false, isRetry: false);
 
         // Two assemblies fail to handshake (their execution ids were never registered). The assembly paths are not
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ public void TestExecutionCompleted_WhenHandshakeFailures_PrintsRecapAndFailsRun(
     public void AssemblyRunStarted_AfterRetry_RendersLatestAttemptCounts()
     {
         var stringBuilderConsole = new StringBuilderConsole();
-        var terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole);
+        TerminalTestReporter terminalReporter = CreateOrchestratorReporter(stringBuilderConsole);
         terminalReporter.TestExecutionStarted(DateTimeOffset.MinValue, workerCount: 1, isDiscovery: false, isHelp: false, isRetry: true);
 
         string assembly = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ? @"C:\repo\Flaky.dll" : "/repo/Flaky.dll";