diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/archive.py b/src/borg/testsuite/archive.py
index 3f8535ff5..08aef74aa 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/archive.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/archive.py
@@ -245,7 +245,8 @@ IK = sorted(list(ITEM_KEYS))
         {b'path': b'/a/b/c'},  # small (different msgpack mapping type!)
         OrderedDict((k, b'') for k in IK),  # as big (key count) as it gets
         OrderedDict((k, b'x' * 1000) for k in IK),  # as big (key count and volume) as it gets
-    ]])
+    ]],
+    ids=["minimal", "empty-values", "long-values"])
 def test_valid_msgpacked_items(packed, item_keys_serialized):
     assert valid_msgpacked_dict(packed, item_keys_serialized)
 
diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver.py b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver.py
index 6a05c1d27..0d0752b5c 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/archiver.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/archiver.py
@@ -4789,6 +4789,7 @@ def test_help_formatting(command, parser):
         assert parser.epilog.rst
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize('topic, helptext', list(Archiver.helptext.items()))
-def test_help_formatting_helptexts(topic, helptext):
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('topic', list(Archiver.helptext.keys()))
+def test_help_formatting_helptexts(topic):
+    helptext = Archiver.helptext[topic]
     assert str(rst_to_terminal(helptext))
diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/cache.py b/src/borg/testsuite/cache.py
index c67fbdf1b..9800030e8 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/cache.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/cache.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class TestCacheSynchronizer:
         (True, 'Unexpected object: true'),
         (False, 'Unexpected object: false'),
         (None, 'Unexpected object: nil'),
-    ))
+    ), ids=["map", "bytes", "int", "double", "true", "false", "none"])
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('structure', (
         lambda elem: {'chunks': elem},
         lambda elem: {'chunks': [elem]},
diff --git a/src/borg/testsuite/key.py b/src/borg/testsuite/key.py
index 92f763584..8107c2f09 100644
--- a/src/borg/testsuite/key.py
+++ b/src/borg/testsuite/key.py
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ class TestTAM:
         (bytes(64), {}),
         (None, bytes(64)),
         (bytes(64), None),
-    ))
+    ), ids=["ed-b64", "b64-ed", "n-b64", "b64-n"])
     def test_wrong_types(self, key, hmac, salt):
         data = {
             'tam': {