diff --git a/unittests/test_crawler.py b/unittests/test_crawler.py
index 954d7636f20c4d31850943b851f4d772af370da8..fbf98346e59b0cbec88f17398eff41f26c423dee 100644
--- a/unittests/test_crawler.py
+++ b/unittests/test_crawler.py
@@ -888,26 +888,6 @@ def test_detect_circular_dependency(crawler_mocked_identifiable_retrieve, caplog
     assert "Found circular dependency" in caplog.text
     assert "-------\na\n['C" in caplog.text
     caplog.clear()
-    crawler = crawler_mocked_identifiable_retrieve
-    crawler.identifiableAdapter.get_registered_identifiable = Mock(
-        side_effect=lambda x: db.Record().add_parent('C').add_property(name='C'))
-    a = db.Record(name='a').add_parent("C")
-    b = db.Record(name='b').add_parent("C").add_property(name="C", value=a)
-    c = db.Record(name='c').add_parent("C").add_property(name='D', value='e'
-                                                         ).add_property(name="C", value=b)
-    d = db.Record(name='c').add_parent("C")
-    a.add_property(name="C", value=c)
-    flat = [a, b, c]
-    circle = Crawler.detect_circular_dependency(flat)
-    assert [id(el) for el in circle] == [id(el) for el in [a, c, b, a]]
-
-    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")
-    assert "Found circular dependency" in caplog.text
-    assert "-------\na\n['C" in caplog.text
-    caplog.clear()
 
 
 def mock_get_entity_by_query(query=None):