diff --git a/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf b/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
index 4d5149220f4..2586f9ce59b 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
+++ b/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ process KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY {
         'https://depot.galaxyproject.org/singularity/krona:2.7.1--pl526_5' :
         'biocontainers/krona:2.7.1--pl526_5' }"
 
+    input:
+
     output:
     path 'taxonomy/taxonomy.tab', emit: db
     path "versions.yml"         , emit: versions
@@ -27,4 +29,16 @@ process KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY {
         krona: $VERSION
     END_VERSIONS
     """
+
+    stub:
+    """
+    mkdir taxonomy
+
+    touch taxonomy/taxonomy.tab
+
+    cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
+    "${task.process}":
+        krona: $VERSION
+    END_VERSIONS
+    """
 }
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/tests/main.nf.test b/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/tests/main.nf.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6fe91a96da5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/tests/main.nf.test
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+
+nextflow_process {
+
+    name "Test Process KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY"
+    script "../main.nf"
+    process "KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY"
+
+    tag "modules"
+    tag "modules_nfcore"
+    tag "krona"
+    tag "krona/ktupdatetaxonomy"
+
+    test("test-krona-ktupdatetaxonomy") {
+
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(process.out).match() }
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    test("test-krona-ktupdatetaxonomy-stub") {
+        options '-stub'
+
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(process.out).match() }
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/tests/main.nf.test.snap b/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/tests/main.nf.test.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a2079521168
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/tests/main.nf.test.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+{
+    "test-krona-ktupdatetaxonomy": {
+        "content": [
+            {
+                "0": [
+                    "taxonomy.tab:md5,6d8ea6b7ff721f735412a670805de501"
+                ],
+                "1": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,a0e095fdd3ba80fcc62188c4c1f38ff7"
+                ],
+                "db": [
+                    "taxonomy.tab:md5,6d8ea6b7ff721f735412a670805de501"
+                ],
+                "versions": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,a0e095fdd3ba80fcc62188c4c1f38ff7"
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.9.0",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-09-05T20:28:34.176093"
+    },
+    "test-krona-ktupdatetaxonomy-stub": {
+        "content": [
+            {
+                "0": [
+                    "taxonomy.tab:md5,d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
+                ],
+                "1": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,a0e095fdd3ba80fcc62188c4c1f38ff7"
+                ],
+                "db": [
+                    "taxonomy.tab:md5,d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
+                ],
+                "versions": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,a0e095fdd3ba80fcc62188c4c1f38ff7"
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.9.0",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-09-05T20:15:46.959212"
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index 3031d41c39d..63f10b608ab 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -392,9 +392,6 @@ krona/ktimporttaxonomy:
 krona/ktimporttext:
   - modules/nf-core/krona/ktimporttext/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktimporttext/**
-krona/ktupdatetaxonomy:
-  - modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/**
-  - tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/**
 leehom:
   - modules/nf-core/leehom/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/leehom/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf b/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
deleted file mode 100644
index 2323ba7d811..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
-
-nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
-
-include { KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY } from '../../../../../modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf'
-
-workflow test_krona_ktupdatetaxonomy {
-    KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY ( )
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 8730f1c4b93..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-process {
-
-    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
-
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/test.yml b/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/test.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ae94a2ad3ea..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/test.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-- name: krona ktupdatetaxonomy test_krona_ktupdatetaxonomy
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy -entry test_krona_ktupdatetaxonomy -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/nf-core/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config
-  tags:
-    - krona
-    - krona/ktupdatetaxonomy
-  files:
-    - path: output/krona/taxonomy/taxonomy.tab