diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep/pull_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep/pull_integration_test.go
index 38a5cc836..63bfc2df2 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep/pull_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep/pull_integration_test.go
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func TestPullRedeliversAKilledPullersAsk(t *testing.T) {
 
 // ADR 0664 §1, §5 (issue 1748) on the real server: a run that ends on a transport fault is written again and the bus gives the
 // ask again after the delay, not before, as the second run (its delivery count one higher), and that run's end is the ask's;
-// a step that runs when its ask is dropped ends refused, naming who dropped it, and the ask is not given again.
+// a step that runs when its ask is dropped ends dropped, naming who dropped it, and the ask is not given again.
 func TestAnAskThatMetTheNetworkIsGivenAgainAndADroppedOneIsEnded(t *testing.T) {
 	js := askBus(t, 30*time.Second)
 	a, doomed := testAsk(sdkstep.AskDelivery), testAsk(sdkstep.AskDelivery)
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ func TestAnAskThatMetTheNetworkIsGivenAgainAndADroppedOneIsEnded(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	dkey, _ := sdkstep.AskStepKey("ace", doomed.ID)
-	waitFor(t, "the dropped step refused", func() bool { s, ok := st.get(dkey); return ok && s.State == sdkstep.StepRefused })
+	waitFor(t, "the dropped step dropped", func() bool { s, ok := st.get(dkey); return ok && s.State == sdkstep.StepDropped })
 	if s, _ := st.get(dkey); !contains(s.Reason, "dropped by mesh-delivery-builder: superseded") {
 		t.Errorf("the dropped step says %q", s.Reason)
 	}