diff --git a/test/GXmlDomTest.vala b/test/GXmlDomTest.vala
index babaa38de42bbf4a832df03e64cb27927361fc45..ccdd02f14490e9610d35be699cd89e761e5eef5f 100644
--- a/test/GXmlDomTest.vala
+++ b/test/GXmlDomTest.vala
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ class GXmlTest {
 
 		// Sets 29 as fatal flags, 16 + 8 + 4 + 1; bits 0,2,3,4, recursion,error,critical,warning; we'll want to undo that warning one so we can catch it
 		Test.init (ref args);
-		SerializationTest.add_tests ();
 		GomSchemaTest.add_tests ();
 		CssSelectorTest.add_tests ();
 
diff --git a/test/SerializationTest.vala b/test/SerializationTest.vala
index 87e4ba77b758049d06506424fe99820a3c3dcd13..42c482d97af3b27e54eeb49e513729d376499687 100644
--- a/test/SerializationTest.vala
+++ b/test/SerializationTest.vala
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ class ComputerStore : GXml.Element {
   }
 }
 
-class SerializationTest : GXmlTest  {
+class SerializationTest : GLib.Object  {
   public class Book : GXml.Element {
     [Description (nick="::Name")]
     public string name { get; set; }
@@ -631,7 +631,8 @@ class SerializationTest : GXmlTest  {
       }
     }
   }
-  public static void add_tests () {
+  public static int main (string[] args) {
+    Test.init (ref args);
     Test.add_func ("/gxml/serialization/write/properties", () => {
     try {
       var b = new Book ();
@@ -1661,5 +1662,9 @@ class SerializationTest : GXmlTest  {
         warning ("Error: %s", e.message);
       }
     });
+
+		Test.run ();
+
+		return 0;
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/meson.build b/test/meson.build
index 40d7e11a7c91c2e15a05e171cd64cdc3bfda4038..ad59dc01a4677a6ba36ccc3a52a569c9d0bf8b6d 100644
--- a/test/meson.build
+++ b/test/meson.build
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ test ('libxml-tests', xt)
 files_tests = files ([
 		'GXmlDomTest.vala',
 		'CssSelectorTest.vala',
-		'SerializationTest.vala',
 		'XsdSchemaTest.vala',
 	])
 
@@ -65,6 +64,19 @@ telement = executable('element', files_element_tests + configvapi + configtestva
 
 test ('element', telement)
 
+files_serialization_tests = files ([
+		'SerializationTest.vala',
+	])
+
+tserialization = executable('serialization', files_serialization_tests + configvapi + configtestvapi,
+	vala_args : [],
+	c_args: tests_cargs,
+	dependencies : [ libgxml_deps, inc_libh_dep, testdirs_dep, inc_rooth_dep],
+	link_with: libgxml
+)
+
+test ('serialization', tserialization)
+
 
 html_tests = files ([
 		'HtmlDocumentTest.vala',