diff --git a/ietf/utils/test_runner.py b/ietf/utils/test_runner.py
index f10bebfab..4914e2af2 100644
--- a/ietf/utils/test_runner.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/test_runner.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ import debug                            # pyflakes:ignore
 import ietf
 import ietf.utils.mail
 from ietf.utils.test_smtpserver import SMTPTestServerDriver
+from ietf.utils.test_utils import TestCase
 
 loaded_templates = set()
 visited_urls = set()
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ class CoverageReporter(Reporter):
         return result
 
 
-class CoverageTest(unittest.TestCase):
+class CoverageTest(TestCase):
 
     def __init__(self, test_runner=None, **kwargs):
         self.runner = test_runner
diff --git a/ietf/utils/test_utils.py b/ietf/utils/test_utils.py
index bc4ed9b77..28d2f5a10 100644
--- a/ietf/utils/test_utils.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/test_utils.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import html5lib
 from datetime import datetime
 import urllib2 as urllib
 from difflib import unified_diff
+from unittest.util import strclass
 
 import django.test
 from django.db import connection
@@ -295,3 +296,5 @@ class TestCase(django.test.TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(resp['Content-Type'].startswith('text/html'))
         self.assertValidHTML(resp.content)
 
+    def __str__(self):
+        return "%s (%s.%s)" % (self._testMethodName, strclass(self.__class__),self._testMethodName)