diff --git a/src/rest/test/__init__.py b/src/rest/test/__init__.py
index 85b82f6cf739817aea1b4d49b228eaad99522b55..5419f1270d0622d519971c574341971dd6d76270 100644
--- a/src/rest/test/__init__.py
+++ b/src/rest/test/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ from src.rest.encoder import JSONEncoder
 class BaseTestCase(TestCase):
 
     def create_app(self):
-        logging.getLogger('connexion.operation').setLevel('ERROR')
+        # silence the noise debug log of the relevant modules
+        for log_name in ("connexion", "openapi_spec_validator"):
+            logging.getLogger(log_name).setLevel('ERROR')
         app = connexion.App(__name__, specification_dir='../swagger/')
         app.app.json_encoder = JSONEncoder
         app.add_api('swagger.yaml')