diff --git a/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_sweep.py b/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_sweep.py
index 7a1b013911..e09abff15b 100644
--- a/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_sweep.py
+++ b/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_sweep.py
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 import json
 
 cur_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-src_dir = os.path.join(cur_dir, "../src/autotuner")
-os.chdir(src_dir)
 
 
 class BaseSweepSmokeTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -13,7 +11,9 @@ class BaseSweepSmokeTest(unittest.TestCase):
     design = ""
 
     def setUp(self):
-        self.config = "distributed-sweep-example.json"
+        self.config = os.path.abspath(
+            os.path.join(cur_dir, "../src/autotuner/distributed-sweep-example.json")
+        )
         # make sure this json only has 1 key called "CTS_CLUSTER_SIZE" and 4 possible values
         with open(self.config) as f:
             contents = json.load(f)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def setUp(self):
         self.jobs = 4 if core >= 4 else core
         self.experiment = f"smoke-test-sweep-{self.platform}"
         self.command = (
-            "python3 distributed.py"
+            "python3 -m autotuner.distributed"
             f" --design {self.design}"
             f" --platform {self.platform}"
             f" --experiment {self.experiment}"
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ def setUp(self):
             f" sweep"
         )
 
+    @unittest.skip("abstract_method")
     def test_sweep(self):
         raise NotImplementedError(
             "This method needs to be implemented in the derivative classes."
diff --git a/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_tune.py b/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_tune.py
index 0fcdc6419e..b5491133cf 100644
--- a/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_tune.py
+++ b/tools/AutoTuner/test/smoke_test_tune.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 import os
 
 cur_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-src_dir = os.path.join(cur_dir, "../src/autotuner")
-os.chdir(src_dir)
 
 
 class BaseTuneSmokeTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -18,7 +16,7 @@ def setUp(self):
         )
         self.experiment = f"smoke-test-tune-{self.platform}"
         self.command = (
-            "python3 distributed.py"
+            "python3 -m autotuner.distributed"
             f" --design {self.design}"
             f" --platform {self.platform}"
             f" --experiment {self.experiment}"
@@ -26,6 +24,7 @@ def setUp(self):
             f" tune --samples 1"
         )
 
+    @unittest.skip("abstract_method")
     def test_tune(self):
         raise NotImplementedError(
             "This method needs to be implemented in the derivative classes."