diff --git a/libtiledbsoma/test/unit_soma_dense_ndarray.cc b/libtiledbsoma/test/unit_soma_dense_ndarray.cc
index 09db1ec5bc..38ec700f1f 100644
--- a/libtiledbsoma/test/unit_soma_dense_ndarray.cc
+++ b/libtiledbsoma/test/unit_soma_dense_ndarray.cc
@@ -55,7 +55,20 @@ TEST_CASE("SOMADenseNDArray: basic") {
     auto soma_dense = SOMADenseNDArray::open(uri, OpenMode::read, ctx);
     REQUIRE(soma_dense->uri() == uri);
     REQUIRE(soma_dense->ctx() == ctx);
-    REQUIRE(soma_dense->type() == "SOMADenseNDArray");
+
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "1. HELLO\n";
+    std::cout << "1. SPARSE FLAG " << (soma_dense->is_sparse()) << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "1. TYPE? " << (soma_dense->type().has_value()) << "\n";
+    std::cout << "1. TYPE! " << (soma_dense->type().value()) << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+
+    REQUIRE(soma_dense->type().has_value());
+    REQUIRE(soma_dense->type().value() == "SOMADenseNDArray");
+
     REQUIRE(soma_dense->is_sparse() == false);
     REQUIRE(soma_dense->soma_data_type() == "l");
     auto schema = soma_dense->tiledb_schema();
@@ -118,7 +131,7 @@ TEST_CASE("SOMADenseNDArray: metadata") {
     std::string uri = "mem://unit-test-dense-ndarray";
 
     auto index_columns = helper::create_column_index_info();
-    SOMASparseNDArray::create(
+    SOMADenseNDArray::create(
         uri,
         "l",
         ArrowTable(
@@ -135,6 +148,20 @@ TEST_CASE("SOMADenseNDArray: metadata") {
         ResultOrder::automatic,
         std::pair<uint64_t, uint64_t>(1, 1));
 
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "2.HELLO\n";
+    std::cout << "2.SPARSE FLAG " << (soma_dense->is_sparse()) << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "2.TYPE? " << (soma_dense->type().has_value()) << "\n";
+    std::cout << "2.TYPE! " << (soma_dense->type().value()) << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+    std::cout << "\n";
+
+    REQUIRE(soma_dense->is_sparse() == false);
+    REQUIRE(soma_dense->type().has_value());
+    REQUIRE(soma_dense->type().value() == "SOMADenseNDArray");
+
     int32_t val = 100;
     soma_dense->set_metadata("md", TILEDB_INT32, 1, &val);
     soma_dense->close();