diff --git a/lib/behat/lib.php b/lib/behat/lib.php
index 03880b0f39e..79426ad8b58 100644
--- a/lib/behat/lib.php
+++ b/lib/behat/lib.php
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ function behat_error_handler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline, $errcontext) {
     // set to DEVELOPER and will always include E_NOTICE,E_USER_NOTICE... as part of E_ALL, if the current
     // error_reporting() value does not include one of those levels is because it has been forced through
     // the moodle code (see fix_utf8() for example) in that cases we respect the forced error level value.
-    $respect = array(E_NOTICE, E_USER_NOTICE, E_STRICT, E_WARNING, E_USER_WARNING);
+    $respect = array(E_NOTICE, E_USER_NOTICE, E_STRICT, E_WARNING, E_USER_WARNING, E_DEPRECATED, E_USER_DEPRECATED);
     foreach ($respect as $respectable) {
 
         // If the current value does not include this kind of errors and the reported error is