diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index e9f796099..814395b45 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Listed in alphabetical order.
   Jan Van Bruggen          `@jvanbrug`_
   Jens Nilsson             `@phiberjenz`_
   Jimmy Gitonga            `@afrowave`_                  @afrowave
+  John Cass                `@jcass77`_                   @cass_john
   Julien Almarcha          `@sladinji`_
   Julio Castillo           `@juliocc`_
   Kaido Kert               `@kaidokert`_
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ Listed in alphabetical order.
   Will Farley              `@goldhand`_                 @g01dhand
   William Archinal         `@archinal`_
   Yaroslav Halchenko
-  Denis Bobrov             `@delneg`_       
+  Denis Bobrov             `@delneg`_
 ========================== ============================ ==============
 
 .. _@a7p: https://github.com/a7p
diff --git a/tests/test_docker.sh b/tests/test_docker.sh
index bebac1488..78c5717a6 100755
--- a/tests/test_docker.sh
+++ b/tests/test_docker.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ cookiecutter ../../ --no-input --overwrite-if-exists use_docker=y
 cd my_awesome_project
 
 # run the project's tests
-docker-compose -f local.yml run django python manage.py test
+docker-compose -f local.yml run django python manage.py pytest
 
 # return non-zero status code if there are migrations that have not been created
 docker-compose -f local.yml run django python manage.py makemigrations --dry-run --check || { echo "ERROR: there were changes in the models, but migration listed above have not been created and are not saved in version control"; exit 1; }
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst
index aef0896a6..c282f73a7 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/README.rst
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Test coverage
 
 To run the tests, check your test coverage, and generate an HTML coverage report::
 
-    $ coverage run manage.py test
+    $ coverage run -m pytest
     $ coverage html
     $ open htmlcov/index.html
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Running tests with py.test
 
 ::
 
-  $ py.test
+  $ pytest
 
 Live reloading and Sass CSS compilation
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^