diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js b/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js
index 133e4126683d9b..8eaf5588aaf2bd 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-pipeline-regr-2639.js
@@ -1,25 +1,20 @@
 'use strict';
-require('../common');
-const assert = require('assert');
+const common = require('../common');
 const http = require('http');
 const net = require('net');
 
 const COUNT = 10;
 
-let received = 0;
-
-const server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
+const server = http.createServer(common.mustCall((req, res) => {
   // Close the server, we have only one TCP connection anyway
-  if (received++ === 0)
-    server.close();
-
+  server.close();
   res.writeHead(200);
   res.write('data');
 
   setTimeout(function() {
     res.end();
   }, (Math.random() * 100) | 0);
-}).listen(0, function() {
+}, COUNT)).listen(0, function() {
   const s = net.connect(this.address().port);
 
   const big = 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'.repeat(COUNT);
@@ -27,7 +22,3 @@ const server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
   s.write(big);
   s.resume();
 });
-
-process.on('exit', function() {
-  assert.strictEqual(received, COUNT);
-});