diff --git a/testing/test_conftest.py b/testing/test_conftest.py
index 6c8072019..5d5407717 100644
--- a/testing/test_conftest.py
+++ b/testing/test_conftest.py
@@ -382,7 +382,6 @@ def test_my_option(pytester):
         encoding="utf-8",
     )
     result = pytester.runpytest("--my_option=None", str(testdir))
-    assert result.ret == 0
     result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(["*1 passed*"])