diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-2-againstCdm.R b/tests/testthat/test-2-againstCdm.R
index a0f5609b1..9add55875 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-2-againstCdm.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-2-againstCdm.R
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ test_that("Cohort diagnostics in incremental mode", {
       incremental = TRUE,
       incrementalFolder = file.path(folder, "incremental"),
       temporalCovariateSettings = temporalCovariateSettings,
-      runFeatureExtractionOnSample = TRUE
+      runFeatureExtractionOnSample = TRUE,
+      minCharacterizationMean = 0.8
     )
   )
 
@@ -56,7 +57,8 @@ test_that("Cohort diagnostics in incremental mode", {
       incremental = TRUE,
       incrementalFolder = file.path(folder, "incremental"),
       temporalCovariateSettings = temporalCovariateSettings,
-      runFeatureExtractionOnSample = TRUE
+      runFeatureExtractionOnSample = TRUE,
+      minCharacterizationMean = 0.8
     )
   )
   # generate sqlite file
@@ -103,7 +105,8 @@ test_that("Cohort diagnostics in incremental mode", {
         incremental = FALSE,
         incrementalFolder = file.path(folder, "incremental"),
         temporalCovariateSettings = temporalCovariateSettings,
-        runFeatureExtractionOnSample = TRUE
+        runFeatureExtractionOnSample = TRUE,
+        minCharacterizationMean = 0.8
       )
     })
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-3-Characterization.R b/tests/testthat/test-3-Characterization.R
index 715d31608..6511457d1 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-3-Characterization.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-3-Characterization.R
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ test_that("Execute and export characterization", {
       incremental = TRUE,
       recordKeepingFile = recordKeepingFile,
       task = "runTemporalCohortCharacterization",
-      jobName = "Temporal Cohort characterization"
+      jobName = "Temporal Cohort characterization",
+      minCharacterizationMean = 0.3
     )
 
     # Check all files are created
@@ -86,7 +87,8 @@ test_that("Execute and export characterization", {
       incremental = TRUE,
       recordKeepingFile = recordKeepingFile,
       task = "runTemporalCohortCharacterization",
-      jobName = "Temporal Cohort characterization"
+      jobName = "Temporal Cohort characterization",
+      minCharacterizationMean = 0.3
     )
 
     # Check no time ids are NA/NULL