diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/structure/RoutingIteratorTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/structure/RoutingIteratorTests.java
index 0c401872b96a2..4196b8882fa8f 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/structure/RoutingIteratorTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/cluster/structure/RoutingIteratorTests.java
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ public void testWeightedRoutingInMemoryStore() {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Test to validate that shard routing state is persistent across requests
+     * Test to validate that shard routing state is maintained across requests
      */
     public void testWeightedRoutingShardState() {
         TestThreadPool threadPool = null;