diff --git a/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py b/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py
index 910d610..271a2cc 100644
--- a/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py
+++ b/swh/counters/tests/test_journal_client.py
@@ -1,181 +1,147 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2021  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 from typing import Dict, Optional
 
 import msgpack
 
 from swh.counters.journal_client import (
     process_journal_messages,
     process_releases,
     process_revisions,
 )
 from swh.counters.redis import Redis
 from swh.model.hashutil import hash_to_bytes
 from swh.model.model import (
     ObjectType,
     Person,
     Release,
     Revision,
     RevisionType,
     Timestamp,
     TimestampWithTimezone,
 )
 
-PROCESSING_METHODS = {
-    "release": "swh.counters.journal_client.process_releases",
-    "revision": "swh.counters.journal_client.process_revisions",
-}
-
 DATE = TimestampWithTimezone(
     timestamp=Timestamp(seconds=0, microseconds=0), offset=0, negative_utc=False
 )
 
 
-def _get_processing_method_mocks(mocker):
-    return {
-        message_type: mocker.patch(PROCESSING_METHODS[message_type])
-        for message_type in PROCESSING_METHODS.keys()
-    }
-
-
 def _create_release(author_fullname: Optional[str]) -> Dict:
     """Use Release.to_dict to be sure the field's name used to retrieve
        the author is correct"""
 
     author = None
     if author_fullname:
         author = Person(fullname=bytes(author_fullname, "utf-8"), name=None, email=None)
 
     release = Release(
         name=b"Release",
         message=b"Message",
         target=hash_to_bytes("34973274ccef6ab4dfaaf86599792fa9c3fe4689"),
         target_type=ObjectType.CONTENT,
         synthetic=True,
         author=author,
     )
 
     return release.to_dict()
 
 
 def _create_revision(author_fullname: str, committer_fullname: str) -> Dict:
     """Use Revision.to_dict to be sure the names of the fields used to retrieve
        the author and the committer are correct"""
     revision = Revision(
         committer_date=DATE,
         date=None,
         type=RevisionType.GIT,
         parents=(),
         directory=hash_to_bytes("34973274ccef6ab4dfaaf86599792fa9c3fe4689"),
         synthetic=True,
         message=None,
         author=Person(fullname=bytes(author_fullname, "utf-8"), name=None, email=None),
         committer=Person(
             fullname=bytes(committer_fullname, "utf-8"), name=None, email=None
         ),
     )
 
     return revision.to_dict()
 
 
 RELEASES = {
     rel["id"]: msgpack.dumps(rel)
     for rel in [
         _create_release(author_fullname="author 1"),
         _create_release(author_fullname="author 2"),
         _create_release(author_fullname=None),
     ]
 }
 
 
 RELEASES_AUTHOR_FULLNAMES = {b"author 1", b"author 2"}
 
 
 REVISIONS = {
     rev["id"]: msgpack.dumps(rev)
     for rev in [
         _create_revision(author_fullname="author 1", committer_fullname="committer 1"),
         _create_revision(author_fullname="author 2", committer_fullname="committer 2"),
         _create_revision(author_fullname="author 2", committer_fullname="committer 1"),
         _create_revision(author_fullname="author 1", committer_fullname="committer 2"),
     ]
 }
 
 
 REVISIONS_AUTHOR_FULLNAMES = {b"author 1", b"author 2"}
 REVISIONS_COMMITTER_FULLNAMES = {b"committer 1", b"committer 2"}
 REVISIONS_PERSON_FULLNAMES = REVISIONS_AUTHOR_FULLNAMES | REVISIONS_COMMITTER_FULLNAMES
 
 
-def test__journal_client__all_keys(mocker):
-
-    mock = mocker.patch("swh.counters.redis.Redis.add")
-
-    redis = Redis(host="localhost")
+def test_journal_client_all_keys(local_redis_host):
+    redis = Redis(host=local_redis_host)
 
     keys = {
         "coll1": {b"key1": b"value1", b"key2": b"value2"},
         "coll2": {b"key3": b"value3", b"key4": b"value4", b"key5": b"value5"},
     }
 
     process_journal_messages(messages=keys, counters=redis)
 
-    assert mock.call_count == 2
+    assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == {b"coll1": 2, b"coll2": 3}
 
-    first_call_args = mock.call_args_list[0]
-    assert first_call_args[0][0] == "coll1"
-    assert first_call_args[0][1] == keys["coll1"]
 
-    second_call_args = mock.call_args_list[1]
-    assert second_call_args[0][0] == "coll2"
-    assert second_call_args[0][1] == keys["coll2"]
-
-
-def test__journal_client_process_revisions(mocker):
-    mock = mocker.patch("swh.counters.redis.Redis.add")
-
-    redis = Redis(host="localhost")
+def test_journal_client_process_revisions(local_redis_host):
+    redis = Redis(host=local_redis_host)
 
     process_revisions(REVISIONS, redis)
 
-    assert mock.call_count == 1
-    first_call_args = mock.call_args_list[0]
-    assert first_call_args[0][0] == "person"
-    assert sorted(first_call_args[0][1]) == sorted(REVISIONS_PERSON_FULLNAMES)
-
+    assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == {
+        b"person": len(REVISIONS_PERSON_FULLNAMES)
+    }
 
-def test__journal_client_process_releases(mocker):
-    mock = mocker.patch("swh.counters.redis.Redis.add")
 
-    redis = Redis(host="localhost")
+def test_journal_client_process_releases(local_redis_host):
+    redis = Redis(host=local_redis_host)
 
     process_releases(RELEASES, redis)
 
-    assert mock.call_count == 1
-    first_call_args = mock.call_args_list[0]
-    assert first_call_args[0][0] == "person"
-    assert first_call_args[0][1] == list(RELEASES_AUTHOR_FULLNAMES)
-
+    assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == {
+        b"person": len(RELEASES_AUTHOR_FULLNAMES)
+    }
 
-def test__journal_client_process_releases_without_authors(mocker):
-    mock = mocker.patch("swh.counters.redis.Redis.add")
 
+def test_journal_client_process_releases_without_authors(local_redis_host):
     releases = {
         rel["id"]: msgpack.dumps(rel)
         for rel in [
             _create_release(author_fullname=None),
             _create_release(author_fullname=None),
         ]
     }
 
-    redis = Redis(host="localhost")
+    redis = Redis(host=local_redis_host)
 
     process_releases(releases, redis)
 
-    assert mock.called == 1
-    first_call_args = mock.call_args_list[0]
-    assert first_call_args[0][0] == "person"
-    assert first_call_args[0][1] == []
+    assert redis.get_counts(redis.get_counters()) == {}