I've noticed that the recommended way to write tests for curio programs is to use pytest and install the curio plugin. I prefer to just stick to the unittest library from the standard library so to be able to run curio tests without pytest I created a CurioTestCase class which mimics the IsolatedAsyncioTestCase included with unittest. It works with both pytest and pure unittest. I already created a pull request but I thought it would be good to open an issue as well for visibility/discussion.