diff --git a/src/calibre/scraper/simple.py b/src/calibre/scraper/simple.py
index a150d5c26a..35025b0011 100644
--- a/src/calibre/scraper/simple.py
+++ b/src/calibre/scraper/simple.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ from calibre.constants import iswindows
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
 from calibre.utils.filenames import retry_on_fail
 from calibre.utils.ipc.simple_worker import start_pipe_worker
-from calibre.utils.resources import get_path as P
 
 
 def worker_main(source):
@@ -136,43 +135,5 @@ def read_url(storage, url, timeout=60):
     return strip_encoding_declarations(scraper.fetch_url(url, timeout=timeout))
 
 
-def find_tests():
-    import re
-    import unittest
-
-    from lxml.html import fromstring, tostring
-    skip = ''
-    is_sanitized = 'libasan' in os.environ.get('LD_PRELOAD', '')
-    if is_sanitized:
-        skip = 'Skipping Scraper tests as ASAN is enabled'
-    elif 'SKIP_QT_BUILD_TEST' in os.environ:
-        skip = 'Skipping Scraper tests as it causes crashes in macOS VM'
-
-    @unittest.skipIf(skip, skip)
-    class TestSimpleWebEngineScraper(unittest.TestCase):
-
-        def test_dom_load(self):
-            from qt.core import QUrl
-            overseer = Overseer()
-            for f in ('book', 'nav'):
-                path = P(f'templates/new_{f}.html', allow_user_override=False)
-                url = QUrl.fromLocalFile(path)
-                html = overseer.fetch_url(url, 'test')
-
-                def c(a):
-                    ans = tostring(fromstring(a.encode('utf-8')), pretty_print=True, encoding='unicode')
-                    return re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', ans)
-                with open(path, 'rb') as f:
-                    raw = f.read().decode('utf-8')
-                self.assertEqual(c(html), c(raw))
-            self.assertRaises(ValueError, overseer.fetch_url, 'file:///does-not-exist.html', 'test')
-            w = overseer.workers
-            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
-            del overseer
-            self.assertFalse(w)
-
-    return unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase(TestSimpleWebEngineScraper)
-
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     print(read_url([], sys.argv[-1]))
diff --git a/src/calibre/scraper/test_fetch_backend.py b/src/calibre/scraper/test_fetch_backend.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2f2b12d0fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/calibre/scraper/test_fetch_backend.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# License: GPLv3 Copyright: 2024, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
+
+import os
+import re
+import unittest
+
+from lxml.html import fromstring, tostring
+
+from calibre.utils.resources import get_path as P
+
+from .simple import Overseer
+
+skip = ''
+is_sanitized = 'libasan' in os.environ.get('LD_PRELOAD', '')
+if is_sanitized:
+    skip = 'Skipping Scraper tests as ASAN is enabled'
+elif 'SKIP_QT_BUILD_TEST' in os.environ:
+    skip = 'Skipping Scraper tests as it causes crashes in macOS VM'
+
+
+@unittest.skipIf(skip, skip)
+class TestSimpleWebEngineScraper(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_dom_load(self):
+        from qt.core import QUrl
+        overseer = Overseer()
+        for f in ('book', 'nav'):
+            path = P(f'templates/new_{f}.html', allow_user_override=False)
+            url = QUrl.fromLocalFile(path)
+            html = overseer.fetch_url(url, 'test')
+
+            def c(a):
+                ans = tostring(fromstring(a.encode('utf-8')), pretty_print=True, encoding='unicode')
+                return re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', ans)
+            with open(path, 'rb') as f:
+                raw = f.read().decode('utf-8')
+            self.assertEqual(c(html), c(raw))
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, overseer.fetch_url, 'file:///does-not-exist.html', 'test')
+        w = overseer.workers
+        self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
+        del overseer
+        self.assertFalse(w)
+
+
+def find_tests():
+    return unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase(TestSimpleWebEngineScraper)
diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/run_tests.py b/src/calibre/utils/run_tests.py
index 39760bb90b..cb0337d0fe 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/run_tests.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/run_tests.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def find_tests(which_tests=None, exclude_tests=None):
         from calibre.utils.matcher import test
         a(test(return_tests=True))
     if ok('scraper'):
-        from calibre.scraper.simple import find_tests
+        from calibre.scraper.test_fetch_backend import find_tests
         a(find_tests())
     if ok('icu'):
         from calibre.utils.icu_test import find_tests