Espresso does not wait for AsyncTask to finish

According to the Espresso documentation an instrumentation test should automatically wait for AsyncTasks to finish. But it does not work. I've created this simple test case:

package foo.bar;

import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.support.test.annotation.UiThreadTest;
import android.support.test.filters.LargeTest;
import android.support.test.rule.UiThreadTestRule;
import android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnit4;
import android.util.Log;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
@LargeTest
public class ExampleInstrumentedTest {

    private static final String TAG = "ExampleInstrumentedTest";

    @Rule public UiThreadTestRule uiThreadTestRule = new UiThreadTestRule();

    @Test
    @UiThreadTest
    public void testAsyncTask() throws Throwable {
        Log.d(TAG, "testAsyncTask entry");
        uiThreadTestRule.runOnUiThread(() -> new AsyncTask<String, Void, Integer>() {
            @Override
            protected Integer doInBackground(String... params) {
                Log.d(TAG, "doInBackground() called with: params = [" + params + "]");
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(2000);
                } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
                }
                return params.length;
            }

            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(Integer integer) {
                Log.d(TAG, "onPostExecute() called with: integer = [" + integer + "]");
                assertEquals(3, (int) integer);
                throw new RuntimeException("this should fail the test");
            }
        }.execute("One", "two", "three"));
        Log.d(TAG, "testAsyncTask end");
    }
}

The test should fail when returning to the UI Thread but it always succeeds. This is the logcat output of the test:

I/TestRunner: started: testAsyncTask(foo.bar.ExampleInstrumentedTest)
D/ExampleInstrumentedTest: testAsyncTask entry
D/ExampleInstrumentedTest: testAsyncTask end
I/TestRunner: finished: testAsyncTask(foo.bar.ExampleInstrumentedTest)
D/ExampleInstrumentedTest: doInBackground() called with: params = [[Ljava.lang.String;@8da3e9]

As you can see the test finishes before the background method is even executed. How can I make the test to wait for it?