diff --git a/examples/bumpy_function.py b/examples/bumpy_function.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_iterate2.py b/tests/unit/test_iterate2.py
index cb0fe225..15360b93 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_iterate2.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_iterate2.py
@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
 import os
 
 def test_iterate2( ):
+    # Note: the metric (yval) is declared in the 'metrics:' section of the
+    # HPO YAML; the iterate2 CLI no longer takes --metric / --root-dir /
+    # --wlm / --gpu-count / --cpu-count / --mem-gb (removed in the refactor).
     script = """
 iterate \
   --script ./examples/bumpy_function.py \
-  --root-dir . \
   --optuna-study-name hpo \
   --optuna-db-path "sqlite:///iterate_study.db" \
   --hpo-yaml examples/bumpy_hpo.yaml \
-  --optuna-n-trials 10 \
-  --wlm none \
-  --metric yval \
-  --gpu-count 0 \
-  --cpu-count 1 \
-  --mem-gb 1
+  --optuna-n-trials 10
     """
     ret = os.system(script)
     assert ret == 0
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