diff --git a/Makefile.include b/Makefile.include
index 69cc428e57..42ac2099da 100644
--- a/Makefile.include
+++ b/Makefile.include
@@ -758,42 +758,8 @@ reset:
 	$(call check_cmd,$(RESET),Reset program)
 	$(RESET) $(RESET_FLAGS)
 
-.PHONY: test test/available
-TESTS ?= $(foreach file,$(wildcard $(APPDIR)/tests/*[^~]),\
-                        $(shell test -f $(file) -a -x $(file) && echo $(file)))
-
-# "make test" calls "make term" which would implicitly build it's dependencies,
-# but that increases the time "make test" needs to get ready. That can cause
-# problems ("make term" missing some lines) as terminal startup is not properly
-# sychronized, but depends on a static timeout (TESTRUNNER_START_DELAY).
-# Murdock builds the term dependencies before running "make test" to circumvent
-# this. In order to make local builds behave similar, add the term deps here.
-# See #11762.
-TEST_DEPS += $(TERMDEPS)
-
-# Export TESTRUNNER_RESET_AFTER_TERM only for the test target. This allows for
-# it to be accessed through the environment from python test script.
-# This is currently needed only by `examples/%/tests` and should be removed in
-# the future since `make reset` after `term` is not a valid synch method across
-# all platforms.
-$(call target-export-variables,test,TESTRUNNER_RESET_AFTER_TERM)
-test: $(TEST_DEPS)
-	$(Q) for t in $(TESTS); do \
-		$$t || exit 1; \
-	done
-
-test/available:
-	$(Q)test -n "$(strip $(TESTS))"
-
-# this target only makes sense if an ELFFILE is actually created, thus guard by
-# RIOTNOLINK="".
-ifeq (,$(RIOTNOLINK))
-test-input-hash: $(TESTS) $(ELFFILE) $(TEST_EXTRA_FILES)
-	sha1sum $^ > $(BINDIR)/test-input-hash.sha1
-else
-test-input-hash:
-	true
-endif
+# tests related targets and variables
+include $(RIOTMAKE)/tests/tests.inc.mk
 
 .PHONY: fuzz
 fuzz:
diff --git a/makefiles/tests/tests.inc.mk b/makefiles/tests/tests.inc.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb03717140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makefiles/tests/tests.inc.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Export TESTRUNNER_RESET_AFTER_TERM only for the test target. This allows for
+# it to be accessed through the environment from python test script.
+# This is currently needed only by `examples/%/tests` and should be removed in
+# the future since `make reset` after `term` is not a valid synch method across
+# all platforms.
+$(call target-export-variables,test test-as-root test-with-config,TESTRUNNER_RESET_AFTER_TERM)
+
+.PHONY: test test/available
+TESTS ?= $(foreach file,$(wildcard $(APPDIR)/tests/*[^~]),\
+                        $(shell test -f $(file) -a -x $(file) && echo $(file)))
+
+# "make test" calls "make term" which would implicitly build it's dependencies,
+# but that increases the time "make test" needs to get ready. That can cause
+# problems ("make term" missing some lines) as terminal startup is not properly
+# sychronized, but depends on a static timeout (TESTRUNNER_START_DELAY).
+# Murdock builds the term dependencies before running "make test" to circumvent
+# this. In order to make local builds behave similar, add the term deps here.
+# See #11762.
+TEST_DEPS += $(TERMDEPS)
+
+test: $(TEST_DEPS)
+	$(Q) for t in $(TESTS); do \
+		$$t || exit 1; \
+	done
+
+test/available:
+	$(Q)test -n "$(strip $(TESTS))"
+
+# this target only makes sense if an ELFFILE is actually created, thus guard by
+# RIOTNOLINK="".
+ifeq (,$(RIOTNOLINK))
+test-input-hash: $(TESTS) $(ELFFILE) $(TEST_EXTRA_FILES)
+	sha1sum $^ > $(BINDIR)/test-input-hash.sha1
+else
+test-input-hash:
+	true
+endif