diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 16d3b453..1aee0e77 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@ before_script:
 
 jobs:
   include:
-    # - stage: "Tests" 
-    #   name: "Unit and integration Tests"
-    #   script: octave $OCTFLAGS --eval "results = runTests; assert(all(~[results.Failed]))"
     - stage: "BIDS validator"
       name: "Create and check dataset"
       script: octave $OCTFLAGS --eval "test_makeRawDataset" && bids-validator `pwd`/output/rawdata/ --ignoreNiftiHeaders
diff --git a/tests/test_checkCFG.m b/tests/test_checkCFG.m
index f82a1171..6ac50b99 100644
--- a/tests/test_checkCFG.m
+++ b/tests/test_checkCFG.m
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function test_checkCfgDefault()
     expectedStructure.testingDevice = 'pc';
 
     %% test
-    checkSubFields(expectedStructure, cfg);
+    assertEqual(expectedStructure, cfg);
 
 end
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ function test_checkCfgBasic()
     expectedStructure = orderfields(expectedStructure);
 
     %% test
-    checkSubFields(expectedStructure, cfg);
+    assertEqual(expectedStructure, cfg);
 
 end
 
@@ -124,34 +124,4 @@ function test_checkCfgBasic()
 
     expectedCfgStructure = orderfields(expectedCfgStructure);
 
-end
-
-function checkSubFields(expectedStructure, cfg)
-    % check that that the structures match
-    % if it fails it check from which subfield the error comes from
-
-    try
-
-        assertEqual(expectedStructure, cfg);
-
-    catch ME
-
-        if isstruct(expectedStructure)
-
-            names = fieldnames(expectedStructure);
-
-            for i = 1:numel(names)
-
-                disp(names{i});
-                testSubFields(expectedStructure.(names{i}), cfg.(names{i}));
-
-            end
-
-        end
-
-        disp(expectedStructure);
-        disp(cfg);
-
-        rethrow(ME);
-    end
-end
+end
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