'most' is exaggerating more than a bit, especially as it is a very large test suite with > 2000 tests passing and ~1000 tests skipped. The tests which are running are a reasonable smoketest to begin with. The skips are mostly test methods which are also tested without a real redis running, and they are not skipped in that part of the test suite. This is a fake redis after all -- the tests against a real redis are a nice to have, but were not a high priority for me yet.