diff --git a/test/framework/asyncprocess.py b/test/framework/asyncprocess.py
index 1d4adb9fe3..06197ed471 100644
--- a/test/framework/asyncprocess.py
+++ b/test/framework/asyncprocess.py
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
 
 import sys
 import time
-from test.framework.utilities import EnhancedTestCase
-from unittest import TextTestRunner, TestSuite
+from test.framework.utilities import EnhancedTestCase, TestLoaderFiltered
+from unittest import TextTestRunner
 
 import easybuild.tools.asyncprocess as p
 from easybuild.tools.asyncprocess import Popen
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def setUp(self):
         super(AsyncProcessTest, self).setUp()
         self.shell = Popen('sh', stdin=p.PIPE, stdout=p.PIPE, shell=True, executable='/bin/bash')
 
-    def runTest(self):
+    def test_echo_between_process(self):
         """ try echoing some text and see if it comes back out """
         p.send_all(self.shell, "echo hello\n")
         time.sleep(0.1)
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def tearDown(self):
 
 def suite():
     """ returns all the testcases in this module """
-    return TestSuite([AsyncProcessTest()])
+    return TestLoaderFiltered().loadTestsFromTestCase(AsyncProcessTest, sys.argv[1:])
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':