diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 8f8cbb9..ef7cf27 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2019 - 2020 Max Fischer
+Copyright (c) 2019 - 2024 Max Fischer
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/asyncstdlib/asynctools.py b/asyncstdlib/asynctools.py
index b75731b..04c7620 100644
--- a/asyncstdlib/asynctools.py
+++ b/asyncstdlib/asynctools.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class _BorrowedAsyncIterator(AsyncGenerator[T, S]):
     __slots__ = "__wrapped__", "__anext__", "asend", "athrow", "_wrapper"
 
     # Type checker does not understand `__slot__` definitions
-    __anext__: Callable[[Any], Awaitable[T]]
+    __anext__: Callable[[Any], Coroutine[Any, Any, T]]
     asend: Any
     athrow: Any
 
diff --git a/asyncstdlib/contextlib.py b/asyncstdlib/contextlib.py
index bb2c0b9..e467c4d 100644
--- a/asyncstdlib/contextlib.py
+++ b/asyncstdlib/contextlib.py
@@ -328,18 +328,15 @@ def push(self, exit: SE) -> SE:
             If a context manager must also be entered, use :py:meth:`~.enter_context`
             instead.
         """
-        try:
+        aexit: Callable[..., Awaitable[Union[None, bool]]]
+        if hasattr(exit, "__aexit__"):
             aexit = exit.__aexit__  # type: ignore
-        except AttributeError:
-            try:
-                aexit = awaitify(
-                    exit.__exit__,  # type: ignore
-                )
-            except AttributeError:
-                assert callable(
-                    exit
-                ), f"Expected (async) context manager or callable, got {exit}"
-                aexit = awaitify(exit)
+        elif hasattr(exit, "__exit__"):
+            aexit = awaitify(exit.__exit__)  # type: ignore
+        elif callable(exit):
+            aexit = awaitify(exit)  # type: ignore
+        else:
+            raise TypeError(f"Expected (async) context manager or callable, got {exit}")
         self._exit_callbacks.append(aexit)  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownArgumentType]
         return exit
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ab9f0e9..6500c39 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 project = "asyncstdlib"
 author = "Max Fischer"
-copyright = f"2019 {author}"
+copyright = f"2019-2024 {author}"
 
 # The short X.Y version
 version = __version__
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 44bd346..4e3496b 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ The missing ``async`` toolbox
    :caption: Development & Maintenance
    :hidden:
 
-   source/contributing
-   source/publishing
+   source/devel/contributing
+   source/devel/testloop
+   source/devel/publishing
 
 The ``asyncstdlib`` library re-implements functions and classes of the Python
 standard library to make them compatible with ``async`` callables, iterables
diff --git a/docs/source/api/contextlib.rst b/docs/source/api/contextlib.rst
index bdf1088..9bb1c6b 100644
--- a/docs/source/api/contextlib.rst
+++ b/docs/source/api/contextlib.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Context Managers
     An :term:`abstract base class` for asynchronous context managers
 
     This class can be used to check whether some object is an
-    asynchronous context manager. If a class may inherit from
+    asynchronous context manager. A class may inherit from
     ``AbstractContextManager``, in which case it must implement
     an ``__aenter__`` method; the default ``__aenter__`` returns
     the asynchronous context manager itself.
diff --git a/docs/source/contributing.rst b/docs/source/devel/contributing.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from docs/source/contributing.rst
rename to docs/source/devel/contributing.rst
diff --git a/docs/source/publishing.rst b/docs/source/devel/publishing.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from docs/source/publishing.rst
rename to docs/source/devel/publishing.rst
diff --git a/docs/source/devel/testloop.rst b/docs/source/devel/testloop.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9df88b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/source/devel/testloop.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+===============
+Test Event Loop
+===============
+
+.. py:module:: unittests.utility
+    :synopsis: testing utilities
+
+To facilitate event loop agnostic features, :py:mod:`asyncstdlib` includes
+its own custom event loop implementation for testing.
+This is provided as a simple decorator that is compatible with :py:mod:`pytest`,
+as well as a number of `async` commands specific to the event loop.
+
+Event Loops
+===========
+
+The test event loop is available via a decorator that should be directly applied
+to an ``async def`` test case.
+
+.. autofunction:: sync(test_case: (...) -> (await) None) -> (...) -> None
+
+Async commands
+==============
+
+.. autoclass:: Schedule(*await Any)
+
+.. py:class::  Switch(skip: int, /)
+    :no-index:
+
+.. py:class::  Switch(min: int, max: int, /)
+    :no-index:
+
+.. autoclass:: Switch()
+
+.. autoclass:: Lock
diff --git a/unittests/test_builtins.py b/unittests/test_builtins.py
index c1a64d7..6231b4b 100644
--- a/unittests/test_builtins.py
+++ b/unittests/test_builtins.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import asyncstdlib as a
 
-from .utility import sync, asyncify, awaitify, inside_loop
+from .utility import sync, asyncify, awaitify
 
 
 def hide_coroutine(corofunc):
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ async def __aiter__(self):
                     yield 1
             finally:
                 nonlocal closed
-                if await inside_loop():
-                    closed = True
+                closed = True
 
     zip_iter = a.zip(asyncify(range(-5, 0)), SomeIterable())
     async for va, vb in zip_iter:
diff --git a/unittests/test_functools.py b/unittests/test_functools.py
index f0efa65..45a26d7 100644
--- a/unittests/test_functools.py
+++ b/unittests/test_functools.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import asyncstdlib as a
 from asyncstdlib.functools import CachedProperty
 
-from .utility import Lock, Schedule, Switch, asyncify, multi_sync, sync
+from .utility import Lock, Schedule, Switch, asyncify, sync
 
 
 @sync
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ async def bar(self):
         Foo().bar
 
 
-@multi_sync
+@sync
 async def test_cache_property_order():
     class Value:
         def __init__(self, value):
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async def check_increment(to):
     assert (await val.cached) == 1337  # last value fetched
 
 
-@multi_sync
+@sync
 async def test_cache_property_lock_order():
     class Value:
         def __init__(self, value):
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ async def check_cached(to, expected):
     assert (await val.cached) == 5  # first value fetched
 
 
-@multi_sync
+@sync
 async def test_cache_property_lock_deletion():
     class Value:
         def __init__(self, value):
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ async def pingpong(arg):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("size", [16, None])
-@multi_sync
+@sync
 async def test_lru_cache_concurrent(size):
     current = 0
 
diff --git a/unittests/test_itertools.py b/unittests/test_itertools.py
index d58b019..8fa8349 100644
--- a/unittests/test_itertools.py
+++ b/unittests/test_itertools.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 import asyncstdlib as a
 
-from .utility import sync, asyncify, awaitify, multi_sync, Schedule, Switch, Lock
+from .utility import sync, asyncify, awaitify, Schedule, Switch, Lock
 
 
 @sync
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ async def test_tee():
             assert await a.list(iterator) == iterable
 
 
-@multi_sync
+@sync
 async def test_tee_concurrent_locked():
     """Test that properly uses a lock for synchronisation"""
     items = [1, 2, 3, -5, 12, 78, -1, 111]
@@ -322,8 +322,7 @@ async def test_tee_concurrent_locked():
     async def iter_values():
         for item in items:
             # switch to other tasks a few times to guarantees another runs
-            for _ in range(5):
-                await Switch()
+            await Switch(5)
             yield item
 
     async def test_peer(peer_tee):
@@ -345,7 +344,7 @@ async def test_peer(peer_tee):
     platform.python_implementation() != "CPython",
     reason="async generators only protect against concurrent access on CPython",
 )
-@multi_sync
+@sync
 async def test_tee_concurrent_unlocked():
     """Test that tee does not prevent concurrency without a lock"""
     items = list(range(12))
@@ -354,8 +353,7 @@ async def test_tee_concurrent_unlocked():
     async def iter_values():
         for item in items:
             # switch to other tasks a few times to guarantee another runs
-            for _ in range(5):
-                await Switch()
+            await Switch(5)
             yield item
 
     async def test_peer(peer_tee):
diff --git a/unittests/utility.py b/unittests/utility.py
index 3beb830..479278d 100644
--- a/unittests/utility.py
+++ b/unittests/utility.py
@@ -11,65 +11,48 @@
 )
 from functools import wraps
 from collections import deque
+from random import randint
 
 
 T = TypeVar("T")
 
 
 async def asyncify(iterable: Iterable[T]) -> AsyncIterator[T]:
-    """Convert an iterable to async iterable"""
+    """
+    Convert an iterable into an async iterable
+
+    This is intended to sequence literals like lists to `async` iterators
+    in order to force usage of `async` code paths. There is no functional
+    or other advantage otherwise.
+    """
     for value in iterable:
         yield value
 
 
 def awaitify(call: Callable[..., T]) -> Callable[..., Awaitable[T]]:
-    async def await_wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
-        return call(*args, **kwargs)
-
-    return await_wrapper
-
-
-class PingPong:
-    """Signal to the event loop which gets returned unchanged"""
-
-    def __await__(self):
-        return (yield self)
-
-
-async def inside_loop():
-    """Test whether there is an active event loop available"""
-    signal = PingPong()
-    return await signal is signal
-
-
-def sync(test_case: Callable[..., Coroutine[T, Any, Any]]) -> Callable[..., T]:
     """
-    Mark an ``async def`` test case to be run synchronously
+    Convert a callable (`foo()`) into an async callable (`await foo()`)
 
-    This emulates a primitive "event loop" which only responds
-    to the :py:class:`PingPong` by sending it back.
+    This is intended to convert `lambda` expressions to `async` functions
+    in order to force usage of `async` code paths. There is no functional
+    or other advantage otherwise.
     """
 
-    @wraps(test_case)
-    def run_sync(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> T:
-        coro = test_case(*args, **kwargs)
-        try:
-            event = None
-            while True:
-                event = coro.send(event)
-                if not isinstance(event, PingPong):  # pragma: no cover
-                    raise RuntimeError(
-                        f"test case {test_case} yielded an unexpected event {event}"
-                    )
-        except StopIteration as e:
-            result = e.args[0] if e.args else None
-        return result
+    async def await_wrapper(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> T:
+        return call(*args, **kwargs)
 
-    return run_sync
+    return await_wrapper
 
 
 class Schedule:
-    """Signal to the event loop to adopt and run a new coroutine"""
+    r"""
+    Signal to the event loop to adopt and run new coroutines
+
+    :param coros: The coroutines to start running
+
+    In order to communicate with the event loop and start the coroutines,
+    the :py:class:`Schedule` must be `await`\ ed.
+    """
 
     def __init__(self, *coros: Coroutine[Any, Any, Any]):
         self.coros = coros
@@ -79,13 +62,35 @@ def __await__(self):
 
 
 class Switch:
-    """Signal to the event loop to run another coroutine"""
+    """
+    Signal to the event loop to run another coroutine
+
+    Pauses the coroutine but immediately continues after
+    all other runnable coroutines of the event loop.
+    This is similar to the common ``sleep(0)`` function
+    of regular event loop frameworks.
+
+    If a single argument is given, this specifies how many
+    turns should be skipped. The default corresponds to `0`.
+    If two arguments are given, this is interpreted as an
+    inclusive interval to randomly select the skip count.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, skip: int = 0, limit: int = 0, /) -> None:
+        if limit <= 0:
+            self._idle_count = skip
+        else:
+            self._idle_count = randint(skip, limit)
 
     def __await__(self):
         yield self
+        for _ in range(self._idle_count):
+            yield self
 
 
 class Lock:
+    """Simple lock for exclusive access"""
+
     def __init__(self):
         self._owned = False
         self._waiting: list[object] = []
@@ -95,10 +100,10 @@ async def __aenter__(self):
             # wait until it is our turn to take the lock
             token = object()
             self._waiting.append(token)
+            # a spin-lock should be fine since tests are short anyways
             while self._owned or self._waiting[0] is not token:
                 await Switch()
-            # take the lock and remove our wait claim
-            self._owned = True
+            # we will take the lock now, remove our wait claim
             self._waiting.pop(0)
         self._owned = True
 
@@ -106,13 +111,18 @@ async def __aexit__(self, exc_type: Any, exc_val: Any, exc_tb: Any):
         self._owned = False
 
 
-def multi_sync(test_case: Callable[..., Coroutine[T, Any, Any]]) -> Callable[..., T]:
+def sync(test_case: Callable[..., Coroutine[None, Any, Any]], /) -> Callable[..., None]:
     """
     Mark an ``async def`` test case to be run synchronously with children
 
-    This emulates a primitive "event loop" which only responds
-    to the :py:class:`PingPong`, :py:class:`Schedule`, :py:class:`Switch`
-    and :py:class:`Lock`.
+    This provides a primitive "event loop" which only responds
+    to :py:class:`Schedule`, :py:class:`Switch` and :py:class:`Lock`.
+
+    It should be applied as a decorator on an ``async def`` function, which
+    is then turned into a synchronous callable that will run the ``async def``
+    function and all tasks it spawns.
+    Other decorators, most prominently :py:func:`pytest.mark.parametrize`,
+    can be applied around it.
     """
 
     @wraps(test_case)
@@ -127,9 +137,7 @@ def run_sync(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any):
                 result = e.args[0] if e.args else None
                 assert result is None, f"got '{result!r}' expected 'None'"
             else:
-                if isinstance(event, PingPong):
-                    run_queue.appendleft((coro, event))
-                elif isinstance(event, Schedule):
+                if isinstance(event, Schedule):
                     run_queue.extend((new_coro, None) for new_coro in event.coros)
                     run_queue.append((coro, event))
                 elif isinstance(event, Switch):