diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
index 5fb6ab7f4a..bc22a8d6db 100755
--- a/run_tests.sh
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 rm /tmp/caravel_unittests.db
+rm -f .coverage
 export CARAVEL_CONFIG=tests.caravel_test_config
 caravel/bin/caravel db upgrade
 python setup.py nosetests
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e59395f2e9..d51dbf8460 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ all_files  = 1
 upload-dir = docs/_build/html
 
 [nosetests]
-verbosity=1
+verbosity=3
 detailed-errors=1
 with-coverage=1
 cover-package=caravel
diff --git a/tests/core_tests.py b/tests/core_tests.py
index dc35f6e28b..e55e5db788 100644
--- a/tests/core_tests.py
+++ b/tests/core_tests.py
@@ -2,48 +2,75 @@ import imp
 import doctest
 import os
 import unittest
-os.environ['CARAVEL_CONFIG'] = 'tests.caravel_test_config'
-from flask.ext.testing import LiveServerTestCase, TestCase
+
+from flask import escape
 
 import caravel
-from caravel import app, db, models, utils
+from caravel import app, db, models, utils, appbuilder
+
+os.environ['CARAVEL_CONFIG'] = 'tests.caravel_test_config'
+
+app.config['TESTING'] = True
+app.config['CSRF_ENABLED'] = False
+app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'thisismyscretkey'
+app.config['WTF_CSRF_ENABLED'] = False
 BASE_DIR = app.config.get("BASE_DIR")
 cli = imp.load_source('cli', BASE_DIR + "/bin/caravel")
 
 
-class LiveTest(TestCase):
+class CaravelTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def create_app(self):
-        app.config['LIVESERVER_PORT'] = 8873
-        app.config['TESTING'] = True
-        return app
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(CaravelTests, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.client = app.test_client()
+        role_admin = appbuilder.sm.find_role('Admin')
+        user = appbuilder.sm.find_user('admin')
+        if not user:
+            appbuilder.sm.add_user(
+                'admin', 'admin',' user', 'admin@fab.org',
+                role_admin, 'general')
+        utils.init(caravel)
+        self.load_examples()
 
     def setUp(self):
         pass
 
-    def test_init(self):
-        utils.init(caravel)
+    def tearDown(self):
+        pass
 
-    def test_load_examples(self):
+    def login(self):
+        self.client.post(
+            '/login/',
+            data=dict(username='admin', password='general'),
+            follow_redirects=True)
+
+    def load_examples(self):
         cli.load_examples(sample=True)
 
     def test_slices(self):
         # Testing by running all the examples
+        self.login()
         Slc = models.Slice
+        urls = []
         for slc in db.session.query(Slc).all():
-            print(slc)
-            self.client.get(slc.slice_url)
-            viz = slc.viz
-            self.client.get(viz.get_url())
-            if hasattr(viz, 'get_json'):
-                self.client.get(viz.get_json())
+            urls += [
+                slc.slice_url,
+                slc.viz.json_endpoint,
+            ]
+        for url in urls:
+            self.client.get(url)
 
     def test_csv(self):
         self.client.get('/caravel/explore/table/1/?viz_type=table&granularity=ds&since=100+years&until=now&metrics=count&groupby=name&limit=50&show_brush=y&show_brush=false&show_legend=y&show_brush=false&rich_tooltip=y&show_brush=false&show_brush=false&show_brush=false&show_brush=false&y_axis_format=&x_axis_showminmax=y&show_brush=false&line_interpolation=linear&rolling_type=None&rolling_periods=&time_compare=&num_period_compare=&where=&having=&flt_col_0=gender&flt_op_0=in&flt_eq_0=&flt_col_0=gender&flt_op_0=in&flt_eq_0=&slice_id=14&slice_name=Boys&collapsed_fieldsets=&action=&datasource_name=birth_names&datasource_id=1&datasource_type=table&previous_viz_type=line&csv=true')
 
     def test_dashboard(self):
+        self.login()
+        urls = {}
         for dash in db.session.query(models.Dashboard).all():
-            self.client.get(dash.url)
+            urls[dash.dashboard_title] = dash.url
+        for title, url in urls.items():
+            print(url)
+            assert escape(title) in self.client.get(url).data
 
     def test_doctests(self):
         modules = [utils]
@@ -52,12 +79,10 @@ class LiveTest(TestCase):
             if failed:
                 raise Exception("Failed a doctest")
 
-    def misc(self):
-        self.client.get('/health')
-        self.client.get('/ping')
+    def test_misc(self):
+        assert self.client.get('/health').data == "OK"
+        assert self.client.get('/ping').data == "OK"
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        pass
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/tests/panoramix_test_config.py b/tests/panoramix_test_config.py
deleted file mode 100644
index dea0733b2e..0000000000
--- a/tests/panoramix_test_config.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-from caravel.config import *
-
-AUTH_USER_REGISTRATION_ROLE = 'alpha'
-SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:////tmp/panoramix_unittests.db'
-DEBUG = True
-PANORAMIX_WEBSERVER_PORT = 8081