diff --git a/test/test_sams_app.py b/test/test_sams_app.py
index a2787ad8e824cf5e610858782370d264659db050..93edd4c60f37a241c533dbf26805cab6fcf966c1 100644
--- a/test/test_sams_app.py
+++ b/test/test_sams_app.py
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ class TestSAMSAppWithThreadedApi(unittest.TestCase):
           response = requests.request(method = method,
             url = 'http://localhost:5000' + path)
           self.assertIs(response.status_code, 200)
+    requests.get('http://localhost:5000/shutdown')
     
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':