diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/qobject.pro b/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/qobject.pro
index ee48f56b1de..0f86408fc93 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/qobject.pro
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/qobject.pro
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 TEMPLATE = subdirs
-SUBDIRS = signalbug tst_qobject.pro
-CONFIG += parallel_test
+SUBDIRS = signalbug
+tst_qobject.pro.depends = $$SUBDIRS
+SUBDIRS += tst_qobject.pro
diff --git a/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/tst_qobject.pro b/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/tst_qobject.pro
index d74f2bcb0f5..30fd810a2e1 100644
--- a/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/tst_qobject.pro
+++ b/tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject/tst_qobject.pro
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ SOURCES = tst_qobject.cpp
 # this is here for a reason, moc_oldnormalizedobject.cpp is not auto-generated, it was generated by
 # moc from Qt 4.6, and should *not* be generated by the current moc
 SOURCES += moc_oldnormalizeobject.cpp
+
+load(testcase) # for target.path and installTestHelperApp()
+installTestHelperApp("signalbug/signalbug",signalbug,signalbug)