diff --git a/IPython/frontend/tests/test_asyncfrontendbase.py b/IPython/frontend/tests/test_asyncfrontendbase.py
index 44b96ac..c009f98 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/tests/test_asyncfrontendbase.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/tests/test_asyncfrontendbase.py
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
 """This file contains unittests for the asyncfrontendbase module."""
-                                                                            
-# Tell nose to skip this module
-__test__ = {}
 
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