diff --git a/beat/core/test/test_bcp.py b/beat/core/test/test_bcp.py
index 3d27ef07189274f16cd7e1a9415c03a9c590c0a5..5fe5702e0749cf81f99715d2bb85e0711d71ccf2 100644
--- a/beat/core/test/test_bcp.py
+++ b/beat/core/test/test_bcp.py
@@ -37,14 +37,13 @@
 # Tests for experiment execution
 
 import os
-import json
-
 import unittest
 import multiprocessing
 import queue
-
 import zmq
 
+import simplejson as json
+
 from ..bcpapi import BCP
 from ..bcpapi.client import BeatComputationClient
 from ..bcpapi.execution import ExecutionProcess