diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index cebe937..41e2d06 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@ before_script:
 script:
     - diff -au <(gofmt -d .) <(printf "")
     - diff -au <(go vet .) <(printf "")
-    - go test
-    - go test -sio.BufSize=23 -sio.PlaintextSize=1825
+    - go test ./...
+    - go test -sio.BufSize=23 -sio.PlaintextSize=1825 ./...
diff --git a/sioutil/sio.go b/sioutil/sio.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9441a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sioutil/sio.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2019 Andreas Auernhammer. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package sioutil implements some I/O utility functions.
+package sioutil
+
+import (
+	"io"
+)
+
+type nopCloser struct {
+	io.Writer
+}
+
+func (nopCloser) Close() error { return nil }
+
+// NopCloser returns a WriteCloser with a no-op Close method
+// wrapping the provided Writer w.
+func NopCloser(w io.Writer) io.WriteCloser {
+	return nopCloser{w}
+}