diff --git a/h2o-py/tests/testdir_algos/automl/pyunit_automl_model_selection.py b/h2o-py/tests/testdir_algos/automl/pyunit_automl_model_selection.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/h2o-py/tests/testdir_algos/automl/pyunit_automl_model_selection.py
+++ b/h2o-py/tests/testdir_algos/automl/pyunit_automl_model_selection.py
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ def test_exploitation_impacts_exploration_duration():
     aml.train(y=ds.target, training_frame=ds.train)
     automl_start = int(aml.training_info['start_epoch'])
     assert 'start_GBM_lr_annealing' in aml.training_info
-    assert 'start_XGBoost_lr_search' in aml.training_info
+    # assert 'start_XGBoost_lr_search' in aml.training_info
     exploitation_start = int(aml.training_info['start_GBM_lr_annealing'])
     exploration_duration = exploitation_start - automl_start
     se_start = int(aml.training_info['start_StackedEnsemble_best'])
PUBDEV-<I> testfix (#<I>)

* removing algos from the runtime exploitation test



* remove assertion in test