diff --git a/CHANGES/4700.feature b/CHANGES/4700.feature
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dfcd88ff960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/4700.feature
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+AioHTTPTestCase is more async friendly now.
+
+For people who use unittest and are used to use unittest.TestCase
+it will be easier to write new test cases like the sync version of the TestCase class,
+without using the decorator `@unittest_run_loop`, just `async def test_*`.
+The only difference is that for the people using python3.7 and below a new dependency is needed, it is `asynctestcase`.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index 8341346ea9d..b90914a4f2b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Alexey Stepanov
 Amin Etesamian
 Amit Tulshyan
 Amy Boyle
+Anas El Amraoui
 Anders Melchiorsen
 Andrei Ursulenko
 Andrej Antonov
diff --git a/aiohttp/test_utils.py b/aiohttp/test_utils.py
index a4d2857d27a..57e2c40027f 100644
--- a/aiohttp/test_utils.py
+++ b/aiohttp/test_utils.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import os
 import socket
 import sys
-import unittest
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Iterator, List, Optional, Type, Union
@@ -19,17 +18,13 @@
 from yarl import URL
 
 import aiohttp
-from aiohttp.client import (
-    ClientResponse,
-    _RequestContextManager,
-    _WSRequestContextManager,
-)
+from aiohttp.client import _RequestContextManager, _WSRequestContextManager
 
 from . import ClientSession, hdrs
 from .abc import AbstractCookieJar
 from .client_reqrep import ClientResponse
 from .client_ws import ClientWebSocketResponse
-from .helpers import sentinel
+from .helpers import PY_38, sentinel
 from .http import HttpVersion, RawRequestMessage
 from .signals import Signal
 from .web import (
@@ -49,6 +44,10 @@
 else:
     SSLContext = None
 
+if PY_38:
+    from unittest import IsolatedAsyncioTestCase as TestCase
+else:
+    from asynctest import TestCase  # type: ignore
 
 REUSE_ADDRESS = os.name == "posix" and sys.platform != "cygwin"
 
@@ -386,7 +385,7 @@ async def __aexit__(
         await self.close()
 
 
-class AioHTTPTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+class AioHTTPTestCase(TestCase):
     """A base class to allow for unittest web applications using
     aiohttp.
 
@@ -420,26 +419,23 @@ def get_app(self) -> Application:
         raise RuntimeError("Did you forget to define get_application()?")
 
     def setUp(self) -> None:
-        self.loop = setup_test_loop()
-
-        self.app = self.loop.run_until_complete(self.get_application())
-        self.server = self.loop.run_until_complete(self.get_server(self.app))
-        self.client = self.loop.run_until_complete(self.get_client(self.server))
-
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.client.start_server())
+        if PY_38:
+            self.loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
 
         self.loop.run_until_complete(self.setUpAsync())
 
     async def setUpAsync(self) -> None:
-        pass
+        self.app = await self.get_application()
+        self.server = await self.get_server(self.app)
+        self.client = await self.get_client(self.server)
+
+        await self.client.start_server()
 
     def tearDown(self) -> None:
         self.loop.run_until_complete(self.tearDownAsync())
-        self.loop.run_until_complete(self.client.close())
-        teardown_test_loop(self.loop)
 
     async def tearDownAsync(self) -> None:
-        pass
+        await self.client.close()
 
     async def get_server(self, app: Application) -> TestServer:
         """Return a TestServer instance."""
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 393ac98e593..6c64cd9cccf 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # required c-ares will not build on windows and has build problems on Macos Python<3.7
 aiodns==2.0.0; sys_platform=="linux" or sys_platform=="darwin" and python_version>="3.7"
 async-timeout==4.0.0a3
+asynctest==0.13.0; python_version<"3.8"
 attrs==20.3.0
 Brotli==1.0.9
 cchardet==2.1.7
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 4f8ea4b7360..7cb78266eb8 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -97,3 +97,7 @@ ignore_missing_imports = true
 
 [mypy-idna_ssl]
 ignore_missing_imports = true
+
+
+[mypy-asynctest]
+ignore_missing_imports = true
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9e26b003e92..da5ae3ad485 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
     "chardet>=2.0,<4.0",
     "multidict>=4.5,<7.0",
     "async_timeout>=4.0a2,<5.0",
+    'asynctest==0.13.0; python_version<"3.8"',
     "yarl>=1.0,<2.0",
     'idna-ssl>=1.0; python_version<"3.7"',
     "typing_extensions>=3.6.5",
diff --git a/tests/test_test_utils.py b/tests/test_test_utils.py
index 7a94451dbc4..afc60bd2830 100644
--- a/tests/test_test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_test_utils.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ async def test_example_with_loop(self) -> None:
         text = await request.text()
         assert _hello_world_str == text
 
-    def test_example(self) -> None:
+    def test_inner_example(self) -> None:
         async def test_get_route() -> None:
             resp = await self.client.request("GET", "/")
             assert resp.status == 200
@@ -104,6 +104,21 @@ async def test_get_route() -> None:
 
         self.loop.run_until_complete(test_get_route())
 
+    async def test_example_without_explicit_loop(self) -> None:
+        request = await self.client.request("GET", "/")
+        assert request.status == 200
+        text = await request.text()
+        assert _hello_world_str == text
+
+    async def test_inner_example_without_explicit_loop(self) -> None:
+        async def test_get_route() -> None:
+            resp = await self.client.request("GET", "/")
+            assert resp.status == 200
+            text = await resp.text()
+            assert _hello_world_str == text
+
+        await test_get_route()
+
 
 def test_get_route(loop, test_client) -> None:
     async def test_get_route() -> None: