diff --git a/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/meta.yml b/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/meta.yml
index f1958dc57ed..8b52160940c 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/meta.yml
+++ b/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/meta.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tools:
       documentation: "https://github.com/shubhamchandak94/Spring/blob/master/README.md"
       tool_dev_url: "https://github.com/shubhamchandak94/Spring"
       doi: "10.1093/bioinformatics/bty1015"
-      licence: "['Free for non-commercial use']"
+      licence: ["Free for non-commercial use"]
 input:
   - meta:
       type: map
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/tests/main.nf.test b/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/tests/main.nf.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..45690c34fd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/tests/main.nf.test
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+
+nextflow_process {
+
+    name "Test Process SPRING_COMPRESS"
+    script "../main.nf"
+    process "SPRING_COMPRESS"
+
+    tag "modules"
+    tag "modules_nfcore"
+    tag "spring"
+    tag "spring/compress"
+
+    test("test-spring-compress-single-end") {
+
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+                input[0] = [
+				    [ id:'test', single_end:true ], // meta map
+				    file(params.modules_testdata_base_path + 'genomics/sarscov2/illumina/fastq/test_1.fastq.gz', checkIfExists: true),
+				    []
+				]
+
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(
+                    file(process.out.spring[0][1]).name,
+                    process.out.versions
+                    ).match()
+                }
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    test("test-spring-compress-paired-end") {
+
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+                input[0] = [
+				    [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
+				    file(params.modules_testdata_base_path + 'genomics/sarscov2/illumina/fastq/test_1.fastq.gz', checkIfExists: true),
+				    file(params.modules_testdata_base_path + 'genomics/sarscov2/illumina/fastq/test_2.fastq.gz', checkIfExists: true)
+				]
+
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(
+                    file(process.out.spring[0][1]).name,
+                    process.out.versions
+                    ).match()
+                }
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/tests/main.nf.test.snap b/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/tests/main.nf.test.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c3a8912b2ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/tests/main.nf.test.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+    "test-spring-compress-single-end": {
+        "content": [
+            "test.spring",
+            [
+                "versions.yml:md5,2882bc3a3593cb048417c38e7452a788"
+            ]
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.8.4",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-08-27T12:27:30.458355"
+    },
+    "test-spring-compress-paired-end": {
+        "content": [
+            "test.spring",
+            [
+                "versions.yml:md5,2882bc3a3593cb048417c38e7452a788"
+            ]
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.8.4",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-08-27T12:27:35.271383"
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index 8384aafa635..a40bacaf4de 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -1164,9 +1164,6 @@ sourmash/taxannotate:
 spatyper:
   - modules/nf-core/spatyper/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/spatyper/**
-spring/compress:
-  - modules/nf-core/spring/compress/**
-  - tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/**
 spring/decompress:
   - modules/nf-core/spring/decompress/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/spring/decompress/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/main.nf b/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/main.nf
deleted file mode 100644
index 02c02a84cda..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/main.nf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
-
-nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
-
-include { SPRING_COMPRESS } from '../../../../../modules/nf-core/spring/compress/main.nf'
-
-workflow test_spring_compress_single_end {
-
-    input = [
-        [ id:'test', single_end:true ], // meta map
-        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_1_fastq_gz'], checkIfExists: true),
-        []
-    ]
-
-    SPRING_COMPRESS ( input )
-}
-
-workflow test_spring_compress_paired_end {
-
-    input = [
-        [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
-        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_1_fastq_gz'], checkIfExists: true), 
-        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_2_fastq_gz'], checkIfExists: true)
-    ]
-
-    SPRING_COMPRESS ( input )
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/nextflow.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 50f50a7a357..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/nextflow.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-process {
-
-    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
-    
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/test.yml b/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/test.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 42c81874ce5..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/test.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-- name: spring compress test_spring_compress_single_end
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress -entry test_spring_compress_single_end -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/nextflow.config
-  tags:
-    - spring/compress
-    - spring
-  files:
-    - path: output/spring/test.spring
-    - path: output/spring/versions.yml
-
-- name: spring compress test_spring_compress_paired_end
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress -entry test_spring_compress_paired_end -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/nf-core/spring/compress/nextflow.config
-  tags:
-    - spring/compress
-    - spring
-  files:
-    - path: output/spring/test.spring
-    - path: output/spring/versions.yml