diff --git a/telecomm/java/android/telecom/Log.java b/telecomm/java/android/telecom/Log.java
index 922eddb6ac3e2..884dcf2dfbad0 100644
--- a/telecomm/java/android/telecom/Log.java
+++ b/telecomm/java/android/telecom/Log.java
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ public class Log {
      */
     private static boolean sIsUserExtendedLoggingEnabled = false;
 
+    /**
+     *  Enabled in telecom testing to help gate log statements causing log spew.
+     */
+    private static boolean sIsUnitTestingEnabled = false;
+
     /**
      * The time when user-activated extended logging should be ended.  Used to determine when
      * extended logging should automatically be disabled.
@@ -330,6 +335,20 @@ public class Log {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Enabled when tests are running to help gate log statements causing log spew.
+     *
+     *  @param isEnabled {@code true} if running unit tests. false otherwise.
+     *
+     */
+    public static void setUnitTestingEnabled(boolean isEnabled) {
+        sIsUnitTestingEnabled = isEnabled;
+    }
+
+    public static boolean isUnitTestingEnabled() {
+        return sIsUnitTestingEnabled;
+    }
+
     private static EventManager getEventManager() {
         // Checking for null again outside of synchronization because we only need to synchronize
         // during the lazy loading of the events logger. We don't need to synchronize elsewhere.