No need to initialize to default value.
diff --git a/base/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/chain2/impl/ContextBaseTestCase.java b/base/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/chain2/impl/ContextBaseTestCase.java
index 7a2318f..911f1df 100644
--- a/base/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/chain2/impl/ContextBaseTestCase.java
+++ b/base/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/chain2/impl/ContextBaseTestCase.java
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
     @Test
     public void testAttributes() {
 
-        Object value = null;
+        Object value;
         checkAttributeCount(0);
 
         context.put("foo", "This is foo");