diff --git a/SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentDatabase/tests/t_radb_functionality.py b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentDatabase/tests/t_radb_functionality.py
index 92bf83e1250185057e156f32260fa8b387f8f8df..ae6b3fce36110da210096bd65912eadb4621d217 100755
--- a/SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentDatabase/tests/t_radb_functionality.py
+++ b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentDatabase/tests/t_radb_functionality.py
@@ -1055,15 +1055,15 @@ class ResourceAssignmentDatabaseTest(radb_common_testing.RADBCommonTest):
         # when a task is > queued (for example, finished)
         # then we don't want conflict statuses anymore if we update start/endtimes
         # test here with weird starttime shift back to overlap with task1
-        self.assertTrue(self.radb.updateTask(task_id2, task_status='finished'))
-        self.assertEqual('finished', self.radb.getTask(task_id2)['status'])
+        self.assertTrue(self.radb.updateTask(task_id2, task_status='active'))
+        self.assertEqual('active', self.radb.getTask(task_id2)['status'])
         self.assertTrue(self.radb.updateTaskAndResourceClaims(task_id2, starttime=task1['starttime']))
-        self.assertEqual('finished', self.radb.getTask(task_id2)['status'])
+        self.assertEqual('active', self.radb.getTask(task_id2)['status'])
         self.assertEqual('claimed', self.radb.getResourceClaim(t2_claim_ids[0])['status'])
 
         #ok, that works, now set the start/end time back to 'normal' for some later test cases
         self.assertTrue(self.radb.updateTaskAndResourceClaims(task_id2, starttime=now+timedelta(hours=2), endtime=now+timedelta(hours=3)))
-        self.assertEqual('finished', self.radb.getTask(task_id2)['status'])
+        self.assertEqual('active', self.radb.getTask(task_id2)['status'])
         self.assertEqual('claimed', self.radb.getResourceClaim(t2_claim_ids[0])['status'])
 
 
@@ -2632,3 +2632,4 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     os.environ['TZ'] = 'UTC'
     logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s', level=logging.INFO)
     unittest.main()
+