diff --git a/tests/testGradientDescentOptimizer.cpp b/tests/testGradientDescentOptimizer.cpp
index fac025c77..cfd7db3d7 100644
--- a/tests/testGradientDescentOptimizer.cpp
+++ b/tests/testGradientDescentOptimizer.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ TEST(optimize, GradientDescentOptimizer2) {
   // Single Step Optimization using Levenberg-Marquardt
   GradientDescentParams2 param;
   param.maxIterations = 500;    /* requires a larger number of iterations to converge */
-  param.verbosity = NonlinearOptimizerParams::ERROR;
+  param.verbosity = NonlinearOptimizerParams::SILENT;
 
 
   GradientDescentOptimizer2 optimizer(graph, initialEstimate, param);