diff --git a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/__init__.py b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/__init__.py
index 96d1dda625..88828e8a38 100644
--- a/django/contrib/formtools/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/django/contrib/formtools/tests/__init__.py
@@ -7,16 +7,12 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.formtools import preview, utils
 from django.contrib.formtools.wizard import FormWizard
 from django.test import TestCase
-from django.test.utils import get_warnings_state, restore_warnings_state
 from django.test.utils import override_settings
 from django.utils import unittest
 
 from django.contrib.formtools.tests.wizard import *
 from django.contrib.formtools.tests.forms import *
 
-warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=PendingDeprecationWarning,
-                        module='django.contrib.formtools.wizard')
-
 success_string = "Done was called!"
 
 class TestFormPreview(preview.FormPreview):
@@ -41,20 +37,12 @@ class PreviewTests(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
         super(PreviewTests, self).setUp()
-        self.save_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning,
-                                module='django.contrib.formtools.wizard.legacy')
-
         # Create a FormPreview instance to share between tests
         self.preview = preview.FormPreview(TestForm)
         input_template = '<input type="hidden" name="%s" value="%s" />'
         self.input = input_template % (self.preview.unused_name('stage'), "%d")
         self.test_data = {'field1':u'foo', 'field1_':u'asdf'}
 
-    def tearDown(self):
-        super(PreviewTests, self).tearDown()
-        self.restore_warnings_state()
-
     def test_unused_name(self):
         """
         Verifies name mangling to get uniue field name.
@@ -130,8 +118,9 @@ class PreviewTests(TestCase):
         self.test_data.update({'stage':2})
         hash = self.preview.security_hash(None, TestForm(self.test_data))
         self.test_data.update({'hash':hash, 'bool1':u'False'})
-        response = self.client.post('/preview/', self.test_data)
-        self.assertEqual(response.content, success_string)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
+            response = self.client.post('/preview/', self.test_data)
+            self.assertEqual(response.content, success_string)
 
     def test_form_submit_good_hash(self):
         """
@@ -241,6 +230,16 @@ class WizardTests(TestCase):
         }
     )
 
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(WizardTests, self).setUp()
+        self.save_warnings_state()
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning,
+                                module='django.contrib.formtools.wizard')
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        super(WizardTests, self).tearDown()
+        self.restore_warnings_state()
+
     def test_step_starts_at_zero(self):
         """
         step should be zero for the first form
diff --git a/django/contrib/sessions/tests.py b/django/contrib/sessions/tests.py
index dbcaea2874..f31c056e65 100644
--- a/django/contrib/sessions/tests.py
+++ b/django/contrib/sessions/tests.py
@@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ from django.contrib.sessions.backends.file import SessionStore as FileSession
 from django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies import SessionStore as CookieSession
 from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
 from django.contrib.sessions.middleware import SessionMiddleware
-from django.core.cache.backends.base import CacheKeyWarning
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured, SuspiciousOperation
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.test import TestCase, RequestFactory
-from django.test.utils import override_settings, get_warnings_state, restore_warnings_state
+from django.test.utils import override_settings
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.utils import unittest
 
@@ -302,12 +301,10 @@ class CacheDBSessionTests(SessionTestsMixin, TestCase):
             self.assertTrue(self.session.exists(self.session.session_key))
 
     def test_load_overlong_key(self):
-        warnings_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',
-                                category=CacheKeyWarning)
-        self.session._session_key = (string.ascii_letters + string.digits) * 20
-        self.assertEqual(self.session.load(), {})
-        restore_warnings_state(warnings_state)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            self.session._session_key = (string.ascii_letters + string.digits) * 20
+            self.assertEqual(self.session.load(), {})
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
 
 
 @override_settings(USE_TZ=True)
@@ -353,12 +350,10 @@ class CacheSessionTests(SessionTestsMixin, unittest.TestCase):
     backend = CacheSession
 
     def test_load_overlong_key(self):
-        warnings_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',
-                                category=CacheKeyWarning)
-        self.session._session_key = (string.ascii_letters + string.digits) * 20
-        self.assertEqual(self.session.load(), {})
-        restore_warnings_state(warnings_state)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            self.session._session_key = (string.ascii_letters + string.digits) * 20
+            self.assertEqual(self.session.load(), {})
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
 
 
 class SessionMiddlewareTests(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py
index 16368c6fe9..f0e2977b31 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/cache/tests.py
@@ -466,20 +466,19 @@ class BaseCacheTests(object):
 
         old_func = self.cache.key_func
         self.cache.key_func = func
-        # On Python 2.6+ we could use the catch_warnings context
-        # manager to test this warning nicely. Since we can't do that
-        # yet, the cleanest option is to temporarily ask for
-        # CacheKeyWarning to be raised as an exception.
-        _warnings_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.simplefilter("error", CacheKeyWarning)
 
         try:
-            # memcached does not allow whitespace or control characters in keys
-            self.assertRaises(CacheKeyWarning, self.cache.set, 'key with spaces', 'value')
-            # memcached limits key length to 250
-            self.assertRaises(CacheKeyWarning, self.cache.set, 'a' * 251, 'value')
+            with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+                # memcached does not allow whitespace or control characters in keys
+                self.cache.set('key with spaces', 'value')
+                self.assertEqual(len(w), 2)
+                self.assertTrue(isinstance(w[0].message, CacheKeyWarning))
+            with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+                # memcached limits key length to 250
+                self.cache.set('a' * 251, 'value')
+                self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
+                self.assertTrue(isinstance(w[0].message, CacheKeyWarning))
         finally:
-            restore_warnings_state(_warnings_state)
             self.cache.key_func = old_func
 
     def test_cache_versioning_get_set(self):
@@ -1450,7 +1449,8 @@ class CacheMiddlewareTest(TestCase):
         self.default_cache = get_cache('default')
         self.other_cache = get_cache('other')
         self.save_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module='django.views.decorators.cache')
+        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning,
+            module='django.views.decorators.cache')
 
     def tearDown(self):
         self.restore_warnings_state()
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/decorators/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/decorators/tests.py
index ecec2812ab..975502273a 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/decorators/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/decorators/tests.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from django.contrib.admin.views.decorators import staff_member_required
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required, permission_required, user_passes_test
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpRequest, HttpResponseNotAllowed
 from django.middleware.clickjacking import XFrameOptionsMiddleware
-from django.test.utils import get_warnings_state, restore_warnings_state
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
 from django.utils.functional import allow_lazy, lazy, memoize
 from django.utils.unittest import TestCase
@@ -68,14 +67,6 @@ fully_decorated = full_decorator(fully_decorated)
 
 class DecoratorsTest(TestCase):
 
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.warning_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning,
-                                module='django.views.decorators.cache')
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        restore_warnings_state(self.warning_state)
-
     def test_attributes(self):
         """
         Tests that django decorators set certain attributes of the wrapped
@@ -131,14 +122,16 @@ class DecoratorsTest(TestCase):
         """
         def my_view(request):
             return "response"
-        my_view_cached = cache_page(my_view, 123)
-        self.assertEqual(my_view_cached(HttpRequest()), "response")
-        my_view_cached2 = cache_page(my_view, 123, key_prefix="test")
-        self.assertEqual(my_view_cached2(HttpRequest()), "response")
-        my_view_cached3 = cache_page(my_view)
-        self.assertEqual(my_view_cached3(HttpRequest()), "response")
-        my_view_cached4 = cache_page()(my_view)
-        self.assertEqual(my_view_cached4(HttpRequest()), "response")
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            my_view_cached = cache_page(my_view, 123)
+            self.assertEqual(my_view_cached(HttpRequest()), "response")
+            my_view_cached2 = cache_page(my_view, 123, key_prefix="test")
+            self.assertEqual(my_view_cached2(HttpRequest()), "response")
+            my_view_cached3 = cache_page(my_view)
+            self.assertEqual(my_view_cached3(HttpRequest()), "response")
+            my_view_cached4 = cache_page()(my_view)
+            self.assertEqual(my_view_cached4(HttpRequest()), "response")
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 4)
 
     def test_require_safe_accepts_only_safe_methods(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py
index 3c91cdc41e..a7d98ec7d4 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import datetime
 import pickle
 import re
 import os
-import warnings
 from decimal import Decimal
 
 from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/generic_views/dates.py b/tests/regressiontests/generic_views/dates.py
index eb1f7d0a95..91d4c29eb2 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/generic_views/dates.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/generic_views/dates.py
@@ -10,14 +10,6 @@ from django.utils import timezone
 from .models import Book, BookSigning
 
 
-import warnings
-warnings.filterwarnings(
-        'error', r"DateTimeField received a naive datetime",
-        RuntimeWarning, r'django\.db\.models\.fields')
-
-
-
-
 class ArchiveIndexViewTests(TestCase):
     fixtures = ['generic-views-test-data.json']
     urls = 'regressiontests.generic_views.urls'
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/i18n/patterns/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/i18n/patterns/tests.py
index e59994a8b0..8ef7377ecc 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/i18n/patterns/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/i18n/patterns/tests.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-import warnings
 
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse, clear_url_caches
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/logging_tests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/logging_tests/tests.py
index 6ec7f2a645..e4c045b9d8 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/logging_tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/logging_tests/tests.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import warnings
 from django.conf import compat_patch_logging_config
 from django.core import mail
 from django.test import TestCase, RequestFactory
-from django.test.utils import override_settings, get_warnings_state, restore_warnings_state
+from django.test.utils import override_settings
 from django.utils.log import CallbackFilter, RequireDebugFalse, getLogger
 
 
@@ -42,12 +42,9 @@ class PatchLoggingConfigTest(TestCase):
         """
         config = copy.deepcopy(OLD_LOGGING)
 
-        warnings_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module='django.conf')
-        try:
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
             compat_patch_logging_config(config)
-        finally:
-            restore_warnings_state(warnings_state)
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
 
         self.assertEqual(
             config["handlers"]["mail_admins"]["filters"],
@@ -60,7 +57,8 @@ class PatchLoggingConfigTest(TestCase):
 
         """
         config = copy.deepcopy(OLD_LOGGING)
-        compat_patch_logging_config(config)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
+            compat_patch_logging_config(config)
 
         flt = config["filters"]["require_debug_false"]
         self.assertEqual(flt["()"], "django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse")
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
index c838832b25..d1c0896720 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from StringIO import StringIO
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIRequest, LimitedStream
 from django.http import HttpRequest, HttpResponse, parse_cookie, build_request_repr, UnreadablePostError
-from django.test.utils import get_warnings_state, restore_warnings_state
 from django.utils import unittest
 from django.utils.http import cookie_date
 from django.utils.timezone import utc
@@ -398,13 +397,9 @@ class RequestsTests(unittest.TestCase):
             'wsgi.input': StringIO(payload)
         })
 
-        warnings_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module='django.http')
-        try:
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
             self.assertEqual(request.body, request.raw_post_data)
-        finally:
-            restore_warnings_state(warnings_state)
-
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
 
     def test_POST_connection_error(self):
         """
@@ -420,10 +415,7 @@ class RequestsTests(unittest.TestCase):
                                'CONTENT_LENGTH': len(payload),
                                'wsgi.input': ExplodingStringIO(payload)})
 
-        warnings_state = get_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module='django.http')
-        try:
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
             with self.assertRaises(UnreadablePostError):
                 request.raw_post_data
-        finally:
-            restore_warnings_state(warnings_state)
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py
index 6914128989..7f30cb987a 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/staticfiles_tests/tests.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import posixpath
 import shutil
 import sys
 import tempfile
-import warnings
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
 from django.template import loader, Context
@@ -511,11 +510,8 @@ class TestCollectionCachedStorage(BaseCollectionTestCase,
         """
         name = "/some crazy/long filename/ with spaces Here and ?#%#$/other/stuff/some crazy/long filename/ with spaces Here and ?#%#$/other/stuff/some crazy/long filename/ with spaces Here and ?#%#$/other/stuff/some crazy/long filename/ with spaces Here and ?#%#$/other/stuff/some crazy/long filename/ with spaces Here and ?#%#$/other/stuff/some crazy/" + chr(22) + chr(180)
         cache_key = storage.staticfiles_storage.cache_key(name)
-        self.save_warnings_state()
         cache_validator = BaseCache({})
-        warnings.filterwarnings('error', category=CacheKeyWarning)
         cache_validator.validate_key(cache_key)
-        self.restore_warnings_state()
         self.assertEqual(cache_key, 'staticfiles:e95bbc36387084582df2a70750d7b351')
 
 
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/views.py b/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/views.py
index ffd416655e..ab625a90dc 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/views.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/views.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import json
-import warnings
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/utils/text.py b/tests/regressiontests/utils/text.py
index bce7f99264..6457845c6f 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/utils/text.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/utils/text.py
@@ -8,13 +8,6 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
 
     # In Django 1.6 truncate_words() and truncate_html_words() will be removed
     # so these tests will need to be adapted accordingly
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.save_warnings_state()
-        warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning, module='django.utils.text')
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        self.restore_warnings_state()
-
     def test_truncate_chars(self):
         truncator = text.Truncator(
             u'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.'
@@ -79,22 +72,26 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
             'id="mylink">brown...</a></p>', truncator.words(3, '...', html=True))
 
     def test_old_truncate_words(self):
-        self.assertEqual(u'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.',
-            text.truncate_words(u'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.', 10))
-        self.assertEqual(u'The quick brown fox ...',
-            text.truncate_words('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.', 4))
-        self.assertEqual(u'The quick brown fox ....',
-            text.truncate_words('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.', 4, '....'))
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            self.assertEqual(u'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.',
+                text.truncate_words(u'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.', 10))
+            self.assertEqual(u'The quick brown fox ...',
+                text.truncate_words('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.', 4))
+            self.assertEqual(u'The quick brown fox ....',
+                text.truncate_words('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.', 4, '....'))
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 3)
 
     def test_old_truncate_html_words(self):
-        self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>',
-            text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 10))
-        self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox ...</em></strong></p>',
-            text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 4))
-        self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox ....</em></strong></p>',
-            text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 4, '....'))
-        self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox</em></strong></p>',
-            text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 4, None))
+        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>',
+                text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 10))
+            self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox ...</em></strong></p>',
+                text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 4))
+            self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox ....</em></strong></p>',
+                text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 4, '....'))
+            self.assertEqual(u'<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox</em></strong></p>',
+                text.truncate_html_words('<p><strong><em>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</em></strong></p>', 4, None))
+            self.assertEqual(len(w), 4)
 
     def test_wrap(self):
         digits = '1234 67 9'