diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml b/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
index e37b46c43..52a5985de 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull-request.yml
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         - "3.8"
         - "3.9"
         - "3.10"
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index b11664c88..34926ea37 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
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 description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.7+"
-category = "main"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
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@@ -1100,5 +1011,5 @@ testing = ["big-O", "flake8 (<5)", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more
 
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-python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "21d1add46de6767e4784710ad659f8881d8eeaf99e0c60b3e1e80d0201600194"
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index 92d56c745..704249463 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,16 +27,14 @@ classifiers = [
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7'
 ]
 
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-python = "^3.7"
+python = "^3.8"
 jsonschema = "^4.4.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 # Starting from Python 3.8, asynctest is replaced with a unittest.mock.AsyncMock in standard library.
-asynctest = { version = "0.13.0", python = "~3.7" }
 pytest = "^7"
 pytest-asyncio = "^0.20.3"
 pytest-cov = "^4.0.0"
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 69e0561c0..51c17e22b 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-try:
-    from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
-except ImportError:
-    # Python 3.7 and below don't include unittest.mock.AsyncMock. Hence,
-    # we need to resolve to a package on pypi.
-    from asynctest import CoroutineMock as AsyncMock
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/tests/v16/conftest.py b/tests/v16/conftest.py
index a8dfc365f..67dea686f 100644
--- a/tests/v16/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/v16/conftest.py
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-try:
-    from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
-except ImportError:
-    # Python 3.7 and below don't include unittest.mock.AsyncMock. Hence,
-    # we need to resolve to a package on pypi.
-    from asynctest import CoroutineMock as AsyncMock
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/tests/v201/conftest.py b/tests/v201/conftest.py
index ca71fc5b3..97dd2b9dd 100644
--- a/tests/v201/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/v201/conftest.py
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-try:
-    from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
-except ImportError:
-    # Python 3.7 and below don't include unittest.mock.AsyncMock. Hence,
-    # we need to resolve to a package on pypi.
-    from asynctest import CoroutineMock as AsyncMock
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
 
 import pytest