diff --git a/tests/integration/control/serverless/test_create_index_sl_happy_path.py b/tests/integration/control/serverless/test_create_index_sl_happy_path.py
index 07795c42..33755e5e 100644
--- a/tests/integration/control/serverless/test_create_index_sl_happy_path.py
+++ b/tests/integration/control/serverless/test_create_index_sl_happy_path.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ def test_create_index(self, client, create_sl_index_params):
         assert desc.name == name
         assert desc.dimension == dimension
         assert desc.metric == "cosine"
-        assert desc.deletion_protection is "disabled"  # default value
+        assert desc.deletion_protection == "disabled"  # default value
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("metric", ["cosine", "euclidean", "dotproduct"])
     def test_create_index_with_metric(self, client, create_sl_index_params, metric):