diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index d2b31af80e..a2b4d7f7d1 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ class DevtoolAddTests(DevtoolBase):
         tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='devtoolqa')
         self.track_for_cleanup(tempdir)
         url = 'gitsm://git.yoctoproject.org/mraa'
+        url_branch = '%s;branch=master' % url
         checkrev = 'ae127b19a50aa54255e4330ccfdd9a5d058e581d'
         testrecipe = 'mraa'
         srcdir = os.path.join(tempdir, testrecipe)
@@ -462,7 +463,7 @@ class DevtoolAddTests(DevtoolBase):
         checkvars = {}
         checkvars['S'] = '${WORKDIR}/git'
         checkvars['PV'] = '1.0+git${SRCPV}'
-        checkvars['SRC_URI'] = url
+        checkvars['SRC_URI'] = url_branch
         checkvars['SRCREV'] = '${AUTOREV}'
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, [])
         # Try with revision and version specified
@@ -481,7 +482,7 @@ class DevtoolAddTests(DevtoolBase):
         checkvars = {}
         checkvars['S'] = '${WORKDIR}/git'
         checkvars['PV'] = '1.5+git${SRCPV}'
-        checkvars['SRC_URI'] = url
+        checkvars['SRC_URI'] = url_branch
         checkvars['SRCREV'] = checkrev
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, [])