diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b2b7c05d..d56e9910 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ that much better:
  * Pete Campton
  * Martyn Smith
  * Marcelo Anton
- * Aleksey Porfirov
+ * Aleksey Porfirov (https://github.com/lexqt)
  * Nicolas Trippar
  * Manuel Hermann
  * Gustavo Gawryszewski
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 52347d01..f3657f56 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Changelog
 Changes in 0.9.X - DEV
 ======================
 
+- Fixed tests for Django 1.7 #696
 - Follow ReferenceFields in EmbeddedDocuments with select_related #690
 - Added preliminary support for text indexes #680
 - Added `elemMatch` operator as well - `match` is too obscure #653
diff --git a/mongoengine/django/tests.py b/mongoengine/django/tests.py
index 1fab6fc3..d7fc3939 100644
--- a/mongoengine/django/tests.py
+++ b/mongoengine/django/tests.py
@@ -1,39 +1,31 @@
 #coding: utf-8
-from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
 
-from mongoengine.python_support import PY3
+from unittest import TestCase
+
 from mongoengine import connect
-
-try:
-    from django.test import TestCase
-    from django.conf import settings
-except Exception as err:
-    if PY3:
-        from unittest import TestCase
-        # Dummy value so no error
-        class settings:
-            MONGO_DATABASE_NAME = 'dummy'
-    else:
-        raise err
+from mongoengine.connection import get_db
 
 
 class MongoTestCase(TestCase):
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        if PY3:
-            raise SkipTest('django does not have Python 3 support')
-
     """
     TestCase class that clear the collection between the tests
     """
-    db_name = 'test_%s' % settings.MONGO_DATABASE_NAME
+
+    @property
+    def db_name(self):
+        from django.conf import settings
+        return 'test_%s' % getattr(settings, 'MONGO_DATABASE_NAME', 'dummy')
+
     def __init__(self, methodName='runtest'):
-        self.db = connect(self.db_name).get_db()
+        connect(self.db_name)
+        self.db = get_db()
         super(MongoTestCase, self).__init__(methodName)
 
-    def _post_teardown(self):
-        super(MongoTestCase, self)._post_teardown()
+    def dropCollections(self):
         for collection in self.db.collection_names():
             if collection == 'system.indexes':
                 continue
             self.db.drop_collection(collection)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.dropCollections()
diff --git a/tests/test_django.py b/tests/test_django.py
index 56a61640..7badbd64 100644
--- a/tests/test_django.py
+++ b/tests/test_django.py
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ import sys
 sys.path[0:0] = [""]
 import unittest
 from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
+
 from mongoengine import *
-
-
 from mongoengine.django.shortcuts import get_document_or_404
 
+import django
 from django.http import Http404
 from django.template import Context, Template
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ settings.configure(
     AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('mongoengine.django.auth.MongoEngineBackend',)
 )
 
+# For Django >= 1.7
+if hasattr(django, 'setup'):
+    django.setup()
+
 try:
     from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, get_user_model
     from mongoengine.django.auth import User
@@ -32,6 +36,7 @@ except Exception:
     DJ15 = False
 from django.contrib.sessions.tests import SessionTestsMixin
 from mongoengine.django.sessions import SessionStore, MongoSession
+from mongoengine.django.tests import MongoTestCase
 from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta
 ZERO = timedelta(0)
 
@@ -293,5 +298,11 @@ class MongoAuthTest(unittest.TestCase):
         db_user = User.objects.get(username='user')
         self.assertEqual(user.id, db_user.id)
 
+
+class MongoTestCaseTest(MongoTestCase):
+    def test_mongo_test_case(self):
+        self.db.dummy_collection.insert({'collection': 'will be dropped'})
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()