diff --git a/panel/nix/tests.nix b/panel/nix/tests.nix
index ea5ebd94..11009213 100644
--- a/panel/nix/tests.nix
+++ b/panel/nix/tests.nix
@@ -22,43 +22,30 @@ let
   };
 in
 lib.mapAttrs (name: test: pkgs.testers.runNixOSTest (test // { inherit name; })) {
-  application-tests = {
-    inherit defaults;
-    nodes.server = _: { imports = [ ./configuration.nix ]; };
-    # run all application-level tests managed by Django
-    # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/testing/overview/
-    testScript = ''
-      server.wait_for_unit("${name}.service")
-      server.succeed("manage test ${name}")
-    '';
-  };
-  admin = {
-    inherit defaults;
-    nodes.server = _: { imports = [ ./configuration.nix ]; };
-    # check that the admin interface is served
-    testScript = ''
-      server.wait_for_unit("${name}.service")
-      server.wait_for_open_port(8000)
-      server.succeed("curl --fail -L -H 'Host: example.org' http://localhost/admin")
-    '';
-  };
-
-  sass-processing = {
+  basic = {
     inherit defaults;
     nodes.server = _: { imports = [ ./configuration.nix ]; };
     extraPythonPackages = ps: with ps; [ beautifulsoup4 ];
     # type checking on `beautifulsoup4` will error out
     skipTypeCheck = true;
-    # check that stylesheets are pre-processed and served
     testScript = ''
-      from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
       server.wait_for_unit("${name}.service")
-      server.wait_for_open_port(8000)
-      stdout = server.succeed("curl --fail -H 'Host: example.org' http://localhost")
-      # the CSS is auto-generated with a hash in the file name
-      html = BeautifulSoup(stdout, 'html.parser')
-      css = html.find('link', type="text/css")['href']
-      server.succeed(f"curl --fail -H 'Host: example.org' http://localhost/{css}")
+
+      with subtest("Django application tests"):
+        # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/testing/overview/
+        server.succeed("manage test ${name}")
+
+      with subtest("Check that admin interface is served"):
+        server.succeed("curl --fail -L -H 'Host: example.org' http://localhost/admin")
+
+      with subtest("Check that stylesheets are pre-processed and served"):
+        from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+        stdout = server.succeed("curl --fail -H 'Host: example.org' http://localhost")
+        # the CSS is auto-generated with a hash in the file name
+        html = BeautifulSoup(stdout, 'html.parser')
+        css = html.find('link', type="text/css")['href']
+        server.succeed(f"curl --fail -H 'Host: example.org' http://localhost/{css}")
+
     '';
   };
 }