diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index aaf5317fe6..10f07793fb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -11,15 +11,15 @@ clean: ## remove build artifacts
 	rm -rf ./build/* cli/winresources/rsrc_* ./man/man[1-9] docs/yaml/gen
 
 .PHONY: test-unit
-test-unit: ## run unit test
-	./scripts/test/unit $(shell go list ./... | grep -vE '/vendor/|/e2e/')
+test-unit: ## run unit tests, to change the output format use: GOTESTSUM_FORMAT=(dots|short|standard-quiet|short-verbose|standard-verbose) make test-unit 
+	gotestsum -- $(shell go list ./... | grep -vE '/vendor/|/e2e/')
 
 .PHONY: test
 test: test-unit ## run tests
 
 .PHONY: test-coverage
 test-coverage: ## run test coverage
-	./scripts/test/unit-with-coverage $(shell go list ./... | grep -vE '/vendor/|/e2e/')
+	gotestsum -- -coverprofile=coverage.txt $(shell go list ./... | grep -vE '/vendor/|/e2e/')
 
 .PHONY: fmt
 fmt:
diff --git a/scripts/test/unit b/scripts/test/unit
deleted file mode 100755
index 6e0b6d5cba..0000000000
--- a/scripts/test/unit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -eu -o pipefail
-
-gotestsum -- "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/test/unit-with-coverage b/scripts/test/unit-with-coverage
deleted file mode 100755
index db2efe7853..0000000000
--- a/scripts/test/unit-with-coverage
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -eu -o pipefail
-
-# install test dependencies once before running tests for each package. This
-# reduces the runtime from 200s down to 23s
-go test -i "$@"
-
-echo "mode: atomic" > coverage.txt
-for pkg in "$@"; do
-    ./scripts/test/unit \
-        -cover \
-        -coverprofile=profile.out \
-        -covermode=atomic \
-        "${pkg}"
-
-    if test -f profile.out; then
-        grep -v "^mode:" < profile.out >> coverage.txt || true
-        rm profile.out
-    fi
-done