diff --git a/tests/components/abode/conftest.py b/tests/components/abode/conftest.py
index 097eb568d4aa9..0a5283336cd3d 100644
--- a/tests/components/abode/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/components/abode/conftest.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Configuration for Abode tests."""
+# DNM: cache empirical test — touch this conftest to provoke a full cache bust.
 
 from collections.abc import Generator
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch