diff --git a/tests/functional/deprecations/04-simple-graph.t b/tests/functional/deprecations/04-simple-graph.t
deleted file mode 100644
index c708c6e64f3..00000000000
--- a/tests/functional/deprecations/04-simple-graph.t
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# THIS FILE IS PART OF THE CYLC WORKFLOW ENGINE.
-# Copyright (C) NIWA & British Crown (Met Office) & Contributors.
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Test deprecation notice for Cylc 7 simple graph (no recurrence section)
-
-. "$(dirname "$0")/test_header"
-set_test_number 2
-
-init_workflow "${TEST_NAME_BASE}" << __FLOW__
-[scheduler]
-    allow implicit tasks = True
-[scheduling]
-    [[dependencies]]
-        graph = foo
-__FLOW__
-
-TEST_NAME="${TEST_NAME_BASE}-validate"
-run_ok "$TEST_NAME" cylc validate -v "$WORKFLOW_NAME"
-
-TEST_NAME="${TEST_NAME_BASE}-cmp"
-cylc validate "$WORKFLOW_NAME" 2> 'val.out'
-cmp_ok val.out <<__END__
-WARNING - deprecated graph items were automatically upgraded in "workflow definition":
-${LOG_INDENT} * (8.0.0) [scheduling][dependencies][X]graph -> [scheduling][graph]X - for X in:
-${LOG_INDENT}       graph
-__END__
-
-purge
diff --git a/tests/integration/scripts/test_validate_integration.py b/tests/integration/scripts/test_validate_integration.py
index e271726dafb..bc6a751e935 100644
--- a/tests/integration/scripts/test_validate_integration.py
+++ b/tests/integration/scripts/test_validate_integration.py
@@ -94,3 +94,18 @@ async def test_validate_against_source_gets_old_tvars(
         flow_file.read_text().replace('P1Y = foo', 'P1Y = {{FOO}}'))
     with pytest.raises(Jinja2Error):
         validate(src_dir)
+
+
+def test_validate_simple_graph(flow, validate, caplog):
+    id_ = flow({
+        'scheduler': {'allow implicit tasks': True},
+        'scheduling': {'dependencies': {'graph': 'foo'}}
+    })
+    validate(id_)
+    expect = (
+        'deprecated graph items were automatically upgraded '
+        'in "workflow definition":'
+        '\n * (8.0.0) [scheduling][dependencies][X]graph'
+        ' -> [scheduling][graph]X - for X in:\n       graph'
+    )
+    assert expect in caplog.messages
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