Celery tasks not throwing exception in Django Tests

I have a couple of celery tasks that are included in my Django tests. Unfortunately exceptions are not thrown when tasks are invoked via .delay(). I am setting CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER to True. tasks.py ``` import celeryapp as app @app.task() def exception_task(): print 'CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER:', app.conf['CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER'] raise Exception('foo') ``` tests.py ``` def test_exception_in_task(self): from tasks import exception_task exception_task.delay() ``` Output ``` CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER: True . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 1 test in 0.686s ``` When removing the .delay the test exits with an error as excpected: ``` ERROR: test_exception_in_task Exception: foo ``` Versions ``` celery==3.1.4 Django==1.6.4 ```