diff --git a/tests/lib/given_steps.py b/tests/lib/given_steps.py
index 9c652029..6b783ae2 100644
--- a/tests/lib/given_steps.py
+++ b/tests/lib/given_steps.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import string
 from datetime import datetime
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 from unittest.mock import patch
-from xml.etree import ElementTree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 
 from pytest_bdd import given
 from pytest_bdd.parsers import parse
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def parse_output_as_language(cli_run, language_name):
     actual_output = cli_run["stdout"]
 
     if language_name == "XML":
-        parsed_output = ElementTree.fromstring(actual_output)
+        parsed_output = ET.fromstring(actual_output)
     elif language_name == "JSON":
         parsed_output = json.loads(actual_output)
     else:
diff --git a/tests/lib/then_steps.py b/tests/lib/then_steps.py
index 84461bc3..4d237ba2 100644
--- a/tests/lib/then_steps.py
+++ b/tests/lib/then_steps.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import json
 import os
 import re
-from xml.etree import ElementTree
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 
 from pytest_bdd import then
 from pytest_bdd.parsers import parse
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ def cache_dir_contains_files(file_list, cache_dir):
 def assert_output_is_valid_language(cli_run, language_name):
     language_name = language_name.upper()
     if language_name == "XML":
-        xml_tree = ElementTree.fromstring(cli_run["stdout"])
+        xml_tree = ET.fromstring(cli_run["stdout"])
         assert xml_tree, "Invalid XML"
     elif language_name == "JSON":
         assert json.loads(cli_run["stdout"]), "Invalid JSON"
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ def assert_output_field_content(field_name, comparison, expected_keys, parsed_ou
 @then(parse('there should be {number:d} "{item}" elements'))
 def count_elements(number, item, cli_run):
     actual_output = cli_run["stdout"]
-    xml_tree = ElementTree.fromstring(actual_output)
+    xml_tree = ET.fromstring(actual_output)
     assert len(xml_tree.findall(".//" + item)) == number
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_parse_args.py b/tests/unit/test_parse_args.py
index 2e2d5cd6..aef3bd9f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_parse_args.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_parse_args.py
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ class TestDeserialization:
     )
     def test_deserialize_multiword_strings(self, input_str):
         runtime_config = make_yaml_valid_dict(input_str)
-        assert runtime_config.__class__ == dict
+        assert runtime_config.__class__ is dict
         assert input_str[0] in runtime_config
         assert runtime_config[input_str[0]] == input_str[1]