diff --git a/tests/integration/node-hdf5.sh b/tests/integration/node-hdf5.sh
index c66158ff1..80838fb41 100755
--- a/tests/integration/node-hdf5.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/node-hdf5.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
-# Test for the example node-type
+# Test for the hdf5 node-type.
 #
-# Author: Steffen Vogel <post@steffenvogel.de>
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2023 Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University
+# Author: Alexandra Bach <alexandra.bach@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2024 Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, RWTH Aachen University
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 set -e
 
-echo "The example node does nothing useful which we could test"
-exit 99
-
 DIR=$(mktemp -d)
 pushd ${DIR}
 
@@ -20,36 +17,30 @@ function finish {
 }
 trap finish EXIT
 
-cat > expect.dat <<EOF
-1553690684.041211800-4.313770e-02(5)	6.303265	0.492616	0.309017	-1.000000	0.800000	0.050000
-1553690684.051211800-5.287260e-02(6)	5.673902	0.148827	0.368125	-1.000000	0.760000	0.060000
-1553690684.061211800-6.266780e-02(7)	5.896198	0.232320	0.425779	-1.000000	0.720000	0.070000
-1553690684.071211800-7.256350e-02(8)	5.788125	0.152309	0.481754	-1.000000	0.680000	0.080000
-1553690684.081211800-8.251890e-02(9)	6.748635	0.608491	0.535827	-1.000000	0.640000	0.090000
-EOF
-
 cat > config.json <<EOF
 {
 	"nodes": {
-		"example_node1": {
-			"type": "example",
-
-			"setting1": 66
-		},
-		"file": {
-			"type": "file",
-			"uri": "output.dat"
+		"hdf5_node": {
+			"type": "hdf5",
+			"file": "test.h5",
+			"dataset": "test,
+			"unit": "none
 		}
 	},
+	"siggen": {
+		"type": "signal",
+		"signal": "sine",
+		"values": 1,
+		"limit": 3,
+		"rate": 10
+	}
 	"paths": [
 		{
-			"in": "example_node1",
-			"out": "file",
+			"in": "siggen",
+			"out": "hdf5_node",
 		}
 	]
 }
 EOF
 
 villas node config.json
-
-villas compare output.dat expect.dat