diff --git a/tests/tests.yaml b/tests/tests.yaml
index d7538567..d8e55ce7 100644
--- a/tests/tests.yaml
+++ b/tests/tests.yaml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ count_paired_wide_contig:
       stdin: paired_contig.bam
       outputs: [stdout]
       references: [count_paired_wide_contig.tsv]
-      options: count -L test.log  --random-seed=123456789 --method=directional --per-contig --paired --umi-separator="|" --wide-format-cell-counts
+      options: count -L test.log  --random-seed=123456789 --method=directional --umi-separator="|" --paired --per-contig --wide-format-cell-counts
 
 # python 2 tests ##