In general, if you don't want to test something, change the test; don't change the code to avoid the test.

Yes that makes sense.
But in this case, your previous reply made me realise that test is a private ^* method and should be marked as such. It will also be removed when I have cured the bug which it is there to debug. So will not be in the production release of the module

^* private in the sense than only me and my test code will use it, not private in that it is only called from within the module.