diff --git a/test/event.jl b/test/event.jl
index 578ab830..3c090d8d 100644
--- a/test/event.jl
+++ b/test/event.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-if backend in ["POCL", "Intel"]
+if backend in ["pocl", "intel"]
     # unsupported by POCL
     # hangs on Intel
     @warn "Skipping event tests"
diff --git a/test/program.jl b/test/program.jl
index c2b99b70..d51b0c3f 100644
--- a/test/program.jl
+++ b/test/program.jl
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
        @test prg[:source] == test_source
     end
 
-    if backend == "POCL"
+    if backend == "pocl"
         @warn "Skipping binary program tests"
     else
         @testset "binaries" begin
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 494c819e..a2b168bc 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 using Test
 using OpenCL
 
-backend = get(ENV, "JULIA_OPENCL_BACKEND", "POCL")
-if backend == "POCL"
+backend = lowercase(get(ENV, "JULIA_OPENCL_BACKEND", "pocl"))
+if backend == "pocl"
     using pocl_jll
 end
 cl.platform!(backend)