diff --git a/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/main/resources/application.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0533d63c9b88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+otel:
+  # "file_format" serves as opt-in to the new file format
+  file_format: "1.0-rc.1"
+  resource:
+    detection/development:
+      detectors:
+        - service:
+    attributes:
+      - name: service.name
+        value: declarative-config-spring-boot-3
+
+  tracer_provider:
+    processors:
+      - simple:
+          exporter:
+            test:
+      - simple:
+          exporter:
+            console:
+
+  logger_provider:
+    processors:
+      - simple:
+          exporter:
+            test:
+
+  meter_provider:
+    readers:
+      - periodic:
+          # Set really long interval. We'll call forceFlush when we need the metrics
+          # instead of collecting them periodically.
+          interval: 1000000
+          exporter:
+            test:
+
+  propagator:
+    composite:
+      - tracecontext:
+      - baggage:
+
+  instrumentation/development:
+    java:
+      runtime-telemetry:
+        emit_experimental_telemetry: true
+      http:
+        client:
+          emit_experimental_telemetry: true
diff --git a/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/spring/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest.java b/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/spring/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest.java
index f01bafb6e22e..5508312be896 100644
--- a/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/spring/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest.java
+++ b/smoke-tests-otel-starter/spring-boot-3.2/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/spring/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.SpanKind;
-import io.opentelemetry.sdk.testing.assertj.TraceAssert;
 import io.opentelemetry.semconv.HttpAttributes;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
@@ -41,18 +40,12 @@ void restClient() {
                 .body(String.class))
         .isEqualTo("pong");
 
-    if (System.getProperty("org.graalvm.nativeimage.imagecode") != null) {
-      // ignore the trace for creating the db table
-      testing.waitAndAssertTraces(trace -> {}, OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest::assertClient);
-    } else {
-      testing.waitAndAssertTraces(OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest::assertClient);
-    }
-  }
-
-  private static void assertClient(TraceAssert traceAssert) {
-    traceAssert.hasSpansSatisfyingExactly(
-        span -> HttpSpanDataAssert.create(span).assertClientGetRequest("/ping"),
-        span -> span.hasKind(SpanKind.SERVER).hasAttribute(HttpAttributes.HTTP_ROUTE, "/ping"),
-        span -> withSpanAssert(span));
+    testing.waitAndAssertTraces(
+        traceAssert ->
+            traceAssert.hasSpansSatisfyingExactly(
+                span -> HttpSpanDataAssert.create(span).assertClientGetRequest("/ping"),
+                span ->
+                    span.hasKind(SpanKind.SERVER).hasAttribute(HttpAttributes.HTTP_ROUTE, "/ping"),
+                span -> withSpanAssert(span)));
   }
 }