diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/tests/management.py b/django/contrib/auth/tests/management.py
index 976c0c4972..02939e39dc 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/tests/management.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/tests/management.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class PermissionDuplicationTestCase(TestCase):
         # check duplicated default permission
         models.Permission._meta.permissions = [
            ('change_permission', 'Can edit permission (duplicate)')]
-        self.assertRaisesRegexp(CommandError,
+        six.assertRaisesRegex(self, CommandError,
             "The permission codename 'change_permission' clashes with a "
             "builtin permission for model 'auth.Permission'.",
             create_permissions, models, [], verbosity=0)
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ class PermissionDuplicationTestCase(TestCase):
             ('other_one', 'Some other permission'),
             ('my_custom_permission', 'Some permission with duplicate permission code'),
         ]
-        self.assertRaisesRegexp(CommandError,
+        six.assertRaisesRegex(self, CommandError,
             "The permission codename 'my_custom_permission' is duplicated for model "
             "'auth.Permission'.",
             create_permissions, models, [], verbosity=0)
diff --git a/tests/modeltests/basic/tests.py b/tests/modeltests/basic/tests.py
index 1c83b980a7..db8c079962 100644
--- a/tests/modeltests/basic/tests.py
+++ b/tests/modeltests/basic/tests.py
@@ -140,21 +140,21 @@ class ModelTest(TestCase):
 
         # Django raises an Article.MultipleObjectsReturned exception if the
         # lookup matches more than one object
-        self.assertRaisesRegexp(
+        six.assertRaisesRegex(self,
             MultipleObjectsReturned,
             "get\(\) returned more than one Article -- it returned 2!",
             Article.objects.get,
             headline__startswith='Area',
         )
 
-        self.assertRaisesRegexp(
+        six.assertRaisesRegex(self,
             MultipleObjectsReturned,
             "get\(\) returned more than one Article -- it returned 2!",
             Article.objects.get,
             pub_date__year=2005,
         )
 
-        self.assertRaisesRegexp(
+        six.assertRaisesRegex(self,
             MultipleObjectsReturned,
             "get\(\) returned more than one Article -- it returned 2!",
             Article.objects.get,
diff --git a/tests/modeltests/str/tests.py b/tests/modeltests/str/tests.py
index 31869583aa..bd85c48d05 100644
--- a/tests/modeltests/str/tests.py
+++ b/tests/modeltests/str/tests.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class SimpleTests(TestCase):
             headline='Girl wins €12.500 in lottery',
             pub_date=datetime.datetime(2005, 7, 28)
         )
-        self.assertRaisesRegexp(RuntimeError, "Did you apply "
+        six.assertRaisesRegex(self, RuntimeError, "Did you apply "
             "@python_2_unicode_compatible without defining __str__\?", str, a)
 
     def test_international(self):
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
index 14b3e0053c..1188da56ba 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class OracleChecks(unittest.TestCase):
         # Check that '%' chars are escaped for query execution.
         name = '"SOME%NAME"'
         quoted_name = connection.ops.quote_name(name)
-        self.assertEquals(quoted_name % (), name)
+        self.assertEqual(quoted_name % (), name)
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(connection.vendor == 'oracle',
                          "No need to check Oracle cursor semantics")
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py
index d21434a12e..8d2a45b8fc 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py
@@ -370,13 +370,13 @@ class Templates(TestCase):
         # Regression test for #19280
         t = Template('{% url path.to.view %}')      # not quoted = old syntax
         c = Context()
-        with self.assertRaisesRegexp(urlresolvers.NoReverseMatch,
+        with six.assertRaisesRegex(self, urlresolvers.NoReverseMatch,
                 "The syntax changed in Django 1.5, see the docs."):
             t.render(c)
 
     def test_url_explicit_exception_for_old_syntax_at_compile_time(self):
         # Regression test for #19392
-        with self.assertRaisesRegexp(template.TemplateSyntaxError,
+        with six.assertRaisesRegex(self, template.TemplateSyntaxError,
                 "The syntax of 'url' changed in Django 1.5, see the docs."):
             t = Template('{% url my-view %}')      # not a variable = old syntax