diff --git a/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py b/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py
index 88af5ef10f..988b56f7a7 100644
--- a/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py
+++ b/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def test_exporters_cli_int8(self, task: str, model_type: str):
             if task.startswith("text2text-generation"):
                 models = [model.encoder, model.decoder]
                 if task.endswith("with-past"):
-                    model.append(model.decoder_with_past)
+                    models.append(model.decoder_with_past)
             elif task.startswith("stable-diffusion"):
                 models = [model.unet, model.vae_encoder, model.vae_decoder]
                 models.append(model.text_encoder if task == "stable-diffusion" else model.text_encoder_2)