diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py b/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py
index f1a8fdefd01..0617d334119 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py
@@ -1124,55 +1124,55 @@ class BitcoinTestFramework(metaclass=BitcoinTestMetaClass):
 
     def is_bench_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether bench_bitcoin was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("BUILD_BENCH")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "BUILD_BENCH")
 
     def is_cli_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether bitcoin-cli was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_CLI")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_CLI")
 
     def is_external_signer_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether external signer support was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER")
 
     def is_wallet_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether the wallet module was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_WALLET")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_WALLET")
 
     def is_wallet_tool_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether bitcoin-wallet was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_WALLET_TOOL")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_WALLET_TOOL")
 
     def is_bitcoin_tx_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether bitcoin-tx was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("BUILD_BITCOIN_TX")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "BUILD_BITCOIN_TX")
 
     def is_bitcoin_util_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether bitcoin-util was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_BITCOIN_UTIL")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_BITCOIN_UTIL")
 
     def is_bitcoin_chainstate_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether bitcoin-chainstate was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_BITCOIN_CHAINSTATE")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_BITCOIN_CHAINSTATE")
 
     def is_zmq_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether the zmq module was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_ZMQ")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_ZMQ")
 
     def is_embedded_asmap_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether ASMap data was embedded during compilation."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_EMBEDDED_ASMAP")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_EMBEDDED_ASMAP")
 
     def is_usdt_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether the USDT tracepoints were compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_USDT_TRACEPOINTS")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_USDT_TRACEPOINTS")
 
     def is_ipc_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether ipc was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_IPC")
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_IPC")
 
     def is_gui_compiled(self):
         """Checks whether the GUI was compiled."""
-        return self.config["components"].getboolean("BUILD_GUI", fallback=False)
+        return self.config.getboolean("components", "BUILD_GUI")
 
     def has_blockfile(self, node, filenum: str):
         return (node.blocks_path/ f"blk{filenum}.dat").is_file()
diff --git a/test/functional/test_runner.py b/test/functional/test_runner.py
index 0a27c8b184d..7ff46f35f0f 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_runner.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_runner.py
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ def main():
         assert results_filepath.parent.exists(), "Results file parent directory does not exist"
         logging.debug("Test results will be written to " + str(results_filepath))
 
-    enable_bitcoind = config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_BITCOIND")
+    enable_bitcoind = config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_BITCOIND")
 
     if not enable_bitcoind:
         print("No functional tests to run.")
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ def main():
                 # Exclude all variants of a test
                 remove_tests([test for test in test_list if test.split('.py')[0] == exclude_test.split('.py')[0]])
 
-    if config["components"].getboolean("BUILD_BENCH") and TOOL_BENCH_SANITY_CHECK in test_list:
+    if config.getboolean("components", "BUILD_BENCH") and TOOL_BENCH_SANITY_CHECK in test_list:
         # Remove it, and expand it for each bench in the list
         test_list.remove(TOOL_BENCH_SANITY_CHECK)
         bench_cmd = Binaries(get_binary_paths(config), bin_dir=None).bench_argv() + ["-list"]
diff --git a/test/fuzz/test_runner.py b/test/fuzz/test_runner.py
index 503acdc1c9c..91df295f62c 100755
--- a/test/fuzz/test_runner.py
+++ b/test/fuzz/test_runner.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def main():
     configfile = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + "/../config.ini"
     config.read_file(open(configfile))
 
-    if not config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_FUZZ_BINARY"):
+    if not config.getboolean("components", "ENABLE_FUZZ_BINARY"):
         logging.error("Must have fuzz executable built")
         sys.exit(1)