diff --git a/test/streaming-sim/VerifySimResults.py b/test/streaming-sim/VerifySimResults.py
index b2eca729fb4b2d4689c48f6f1c339cd26dea2081..28ad34d698ab9185a8a463d0b77f6fb98f44ba00 100644
--- a/test/streaming-sim/VerifySimResults.py
+++ b/test/streaming-sim/VerifySimResults.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class TestSimulation(object):
         """
         This is the entry point of the test. This method will be found and executed when the module is ran using pytest
 
-        :param run_simulation: the imported fixture to use to generate the testing data - the return value of the fixture is not needed in this case
+        :param run_simulation_fixture: the imported fixture to use to generate the testing data - the return value of the fixture is not needed in this case
         :param queries_to_test: the fixture to use - returns a JSON object represented as a python dictionary
         """
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class TestSimulation(object):
         return result.read().decode("utf-8").strip()
 
     @staticmethod
-    @fixture
+    @fixture(scope='class')
     def queries_to_test():
         """
         A pytest fixture used to read the queries, which would be tested, from a JSON file