diff --git a/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py b/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
index af7281d46..50141d415 100644
--- a/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
+++ b/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ def test_strip_tags_and_remove(self):
         self.assertEquals(_bytes('<div><h1>title</h1> foo <p>boo</p></div>'),
                           self.etree.tostring(root))
         root.remove(root[0])
-        self.assertEquals(_bytes('<div>TEST<p>boo</p></div>'),
+        self.assertEquals(_bytes('<div><p>boo</p></div>'),
                           self.etree.tostring(root))
 
     def test_pi(self):