diff --git a/src/ipc/test/CMakeLists.txt b/src/ipc/test/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a9bb02f59e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ipc/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023-present The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or https://opensource.org/license/mit/.
+
+target_link_libraries(bitcoin_ipc_test
+  PRIVATE
+    core_interface
+    univalue
+    Boost::headers
+)
+
+# Do not use generator expressions in test sources because the
+# SOURCES property is processed to gather test suite macros.
+target_sources(test_bitcoin
+  PRIVATE
+    ipc_tests.cpp
+)
+
+target_link_libraries(test_bitcoin bitcoin_ipc_test bitcoin_ipc)
diff --git a/src/test/ipc_tests.cpp b/src/ipc/test/ipc_tests.cpp
similarity index 100%
rename from src/test/ipc_tests.cpp
rename to src/ipc/test/ipc_tests.cpp
diff --git a/src/test/.clang-tidy.in b/src/test/.clang-tidy.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 92d24f6f660..00000000000
--- a/src/test/.clang-tidy.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Checks:
-  # See: https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/pull/2417.
-  - "-clang-analyzer-security.ArrayBound"
diff --git a/src/test/CMakeLists.txt b/src/test/CMakeLists.txt
index a67cd241764..4e8f7e91971 100644
--- a/src/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -168,20 +168,7 @@ if(ENABLE_WALLET)
 endif()
 
 if(ENABLE_IPC)
-  target_link_libraries(bitcoin_ipc_test
-    PRIVATE
-      core_interface
-      univalue
-      Boost::headers
-  )
-
-  target_sources(test_bitcoin
-    PRIVATE
-      ipc_tests.cpp
-  )
-  target_link_libraries(test_bitcoin bitcoin_ipc_test bitcoin_ipc)
-
-  configure_file(.clang-tidy.in .clang-tidy USE_SOURCE_PERMISSIONS COPYONLY)
+  add_subdirectory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/ipc/test ipc)
 endif()
 
 function(add_boost_test source_file)