diff --git a/packages/xforms-engine/test/parse/xpath/dependency-analysis.test.ts b/packages/xforms-engine/test/parse/xpath/dependency-analysis.test.ts
index a9a725e3f..fe23a567c 100644
--- a/packages/xforms-engine/test/parse/xpath/dependency-analysis.test.ts
+++ b/packages/xforms-engine/test/parse/xpath/dependency-analysis.test.ts
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ describe('Dependency analysis', () => {
 			description:
 				'No context. Expression with instance("id") reference has its own parent steps resolved',
 
-			contextNodeset: '/data/quux',
+			contextNodeset: null,
 			expression: 'instance("first")/foo/bar/../quux',
 			expected: ['instance("first")/foo/quux'],
 		},