diff --git a/jest.config.js b/jest.config.js
index 4ed043f73de..9c991a446fc 100644
--- a/jest.config.js
+++ b/jest.config.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ module.exports = {
   transformIgnorePatterns: [
     `/node_modules/(?!${esModules})`, // exclude es modules to prevent TS complaining
   ],
-  moduleDirectories: ['public', 'node_modules'],
+  moduleDirectories: ['public', 'node_modules', 'public/test'],
   roots: ['<rootDir>/public/app', '<rootDir>/public/test', '<rootDir>/packages', '<rootDir>/scripts/tests'],
   testRegex: '(\\.|/)(test)\\.(jsx?|tsx?)$',
   moduleFileExtensions: ['ts', 'tsx', 'js', 'jsx', 'json'],
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ module.exports = {
     '^@grafana/schema/dist/esm/(.*)$': '<rootDir>/packages/grafana-schema/src/$1',
     // prevent systemjs amd extra from breaking tests.
     'systemjs/dist/extras/amd': '<rootDir>/public/test/mocks/systemjsAMDExtra.ts',
+    '@grafana/test-utils': '<rootDir>/public/test/test-utils.tsx',
   },
   // Log the test results with dynamic Loki tags. Drone CI only
   reporters: ['default', ['<rootDir>/public/test/log-reporter.js', { enable: process.env.DRONE === 'true' }]],
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 4949f581e7a..788431077ee 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@
     "incremental": true,
     "tsBuildInfoFile": "./tsconfig.tsbuildinfo",
     "paths": {
-      "@grafana/schema/dist/esm/*": ["../packages/grafana-schema/src/*"]
+      "@grafana/schema/dist/esm/*": ["../packages/grafana-schema/src/*"],
+      "@grafana/test-utils": ["./test/test-utils.tsx"]
     }
   },
   "extends": "@grafana/tsconfig/base.json",
   "include": [
     "public/app/**/*.ts*",
     "public/e2e-test/**/*.ts",
-    "public/test/**/*.ts",
+    "public/test/**/*.ts*",
     "public/vendor/**/*.ts",
     "packages/grafana-data/typings",
     "packages/grafana-ui/src/types"