diff --git a/ql/ql/test/queries/style/MissingQualityMetadata/MissingQualityMetadata.expected b/ql/ql/test/queries/style/MissingQualityMetadata/MissingQualityMetadata.expected
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+| testcases/BadQualityMaintainabilityWrongToplevel.ql:1:1:17:13 | TopLevel | This query file has a sub-category of reliability but is missing the `@tags reliability` tag. |
+| testcases/BadQualityMultipleTopLevel.ql:1:1:17:13 | TopLevel | This query file has incorrect top-level categorisation. It should have exactly one top-level category, either `@tags maintainability` or `@tags reliability`. |
+| testcases/BadQualityNoToplevel.ql:1:1:16:13 | TopLevel | This query file has incorrect top-level categorisation. It should have exactly one top-level category, either `@tags maintainability` or `@tags reliability`. |
+| testcases/BadQualityReliabilityWrongToplevel.ql:1:1:17:13 | TopLevel | This query file has a sub-category of maintainability but is missing the `@tags maintainability` tag. |
diff --git a/ql/ql/test/queries/style/MissingQualityMetadata/MissingQualityMetadata.qlref b/ql/ql/test/queries/style/MissingQualityMetadata/MissingQualityMetadata.qlref
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+queries/style/MissingQualityMetadata.ql