diff --git a/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf b/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf
index bc925a0dedc..4630a0d51e2 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf
+++ b/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf
@@ -39,4 +39,16 @@ process PICARD_CREATESEQUENCEDICTIONARY {
         picard: \$(picard CreateSequenceDictionary --version 2>&1 | grep -o 'Version:.*' | cut -f2- -d:)
     END_VERSIONS
     """
+
+    stub:
+    def prefix = task.ext.prefix ?: "${meta.id}"
+    """
+    touch ${prefix}.dict
+
+    cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
+    "${task.process}":
+        picard: \$(echo \$(picard CreateSequenceDictionary --version 2>&1) | grep -o 'Version:.*' | cut -f2- -d:)
+    END_VERSIONS
+    """
+
 }
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/tests/main.nf.test b/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/tests/main.nf.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8152be96f31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/tests/main.nf.test
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+nextflow_process {
+
+    name "Test Process PICARD_CREATESEQUENCEDICTIONARY"
+    script "../main.nf"
+    process "PICARD_CREATESEQUENCEDICTIONARY"
+
+    tag "modules"
+    tag "modules_nfcore"
+    tag "picard"
+    tag "picard/createsequencedictionary"
+
+    test("sarscov2 - fasta") {
+
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+                input[0] = [
+                    [ id:'test' ], // meta map
+                    file(params.modules_testdata_base_path + 'genomics/sarscov2/genome/genome.fasta', checkIfExists: true)]
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(
+                    file(process.out.reference_dict[0][1]).name,
+                    process.out.versions
+                    ).match()
+                }
+
+            )
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    test("sarscov2 - fasta - stub") {
+
+        options "-stub"
+
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+                input[0] = [
+                    [ id:'test' ], // meta map
+                    file(params.modules_testdata_base_path + 'genomics/sarscov2/genome/genome.fasta', checkIfExists: true)]
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(process.out).match() }
+            )
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/tests/main.nf.test.snap b/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/tests/main.nf.test.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f3f8c8ec90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/tests/main.nf.test.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+{
+    "sarscov2 - fasta - stub": {
+        "content": [
+            {
+                "0": [
+                    [
+                        {
+                            "id": "test"
+                        },
+                        "test.dict:md5,d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
+                    ]
+                ],
+                "1": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,fdb110d8c303ffa0615bb200f9a2c999"
+                ],
+                "reference_dict": [
+                    [
+                        {
+                            "id": "test"
+                        },
+                        "test.dict:md5,d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
+                    ]
+                ],
+                "versions": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,fdb110d8c303ffa0615bb200f9a2c999"
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.9.0",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-08-19T07:02:59.686224426"
+    },
+    "sarscov2 - fasta": {
+        "content": [
+            "test.dict",
+            [
+                "versions.yml:md5,fdb110d8c303ffa0615bb200f9a2c999"
+            ]
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.9.0",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-08-16T14:31:34.330709472"
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index 4d690091ec1..96b2515f593 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -1121,9 +1121,6 @@ picard/collectrnaseqmetrics:
 picard/collectwgsmetrics:
   - modules/nf-core/picard/collectwgsmetrics/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/picard/collectwgsmetrics/**
-picard/createsequencedictionary:
-  - modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/**
-  - tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/**
 picard/fastqtosam:
   - modules/nf-core/picard/fastqtosam/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/picard/fastqtosam/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf b/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf
deleted file mode 100644
index fcdc50b641d..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
-
-nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
-
-include { PICARD_CREATESEQUENCEDICTIONARY } from '../../../../../modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/main.nf'
-
-workflow test_picard_createsequencedictionary {
-    
-    input = [ 
-        [ id:'test' ], // meta map
-        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['genome']['genome_fasta'], checkIfExists: true) 
-    ]
-
-    PICARD_CREATESEQUENCEDICTIONARY ( input )
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/nextflow.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 50f50a7a357..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/nextflow.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-process {
-
-    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
-    
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/test.yml b/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/test.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ba2f1248264..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary/test.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-- name: picard createsequencedictionary test_picard_createsequencedictionary
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/nf-core/picard/createsequencedictionary -entry test_picard_createsequencedictionary -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config
-  tags:
-    - picard/createsequencedictionary
-    - picard
-  files:
-    - path: output/picard/test.dict
-      contains: ["SN:MT192765.1"]
-    - path: output/picard/versions.yml