diff --git a/pyTiming/tests/test_pt.py b/pyTiming/tests/test_pt.py
index dccdd8c0ed17bc33a634d2cfa0a8358501551844..a6e6602e7da84537a9c0632e0f658ceb07b4a2ae 100644
--- a/pyTiming/tests/test_pt.py
+++ b/pyTiming/tests/test_pt.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def seq():
     for i in range(MAX_PROC):
         stress(i)
 
+
 def test_timer():
     timer = pyTiming.timer()
 
@@ -44,13 +45,10 @@ def test_timer():
     timer.end()
 
     analysis = timer.get_analysis()
+    # TODO : improve these asserts constants, basicly the only real parallelism (i.e > 1) occurs on processes
     assert analysis['processes']['parallelism'] > 1.1
     assert analysis['processes']['parallelism'] < MAX_PROC
-    assert analysis['threads']['parallelism'] > .8
+    assert analysis['threads']['parallelism'] > .5
     assert analysis['threads']['parallelism'] < 1.1
-    assert analysis['seq']['parallelism'] > .8
+    assert analysis['seq']['parallelism'] > .5
     assert analysis['seq']['parallelism'] < 1.1
-
-
-
-