diff --git a/unittests/test_crawler.py b/unittests/test_crawler.py
index 7c592b434fe75f61b4076f91ccd0c3ce61227d1a..f28cd897fe9f1c31b1d13648f19356066a58ed8e 100644
--- a/unittests/test_crawler.py
+++ b/unittests/test_crawler.py
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ def test_detect_circular_dependency(crawler_mocked_identifiable_retrieve, caplog
     circle = Crawler.detect_circular_dependency(flat)
     assert [id(el) for el in circle] == [id(el) for el in [a, c, b, a]]
 
-    assert detect_circular_dependency([d]) is None
+    assert Crawler.detect_circular_dependency([d]) is None
     with raises(RuntimeError):
         _, _ = crawler.split_into_inserts_and_updates(flat)
     caplog.set_level(logging.ERROR, logger="caoscrawler.converters")