Statistical analysis frequently involves the problem of assessing distributional properties. This article concerns the problem of testing for skewness of random variables. It is argued that the classical skewness test is not very useful for this purpose, and another approach is suggested that is easy to implement and is also robust to heteroscedasticity. The size, power, and robustness properties of the proposed test is evaluated and compared to the classical skewness test by means of Monte Carlo simulations.