diff --git a/packages/js-analyze-tests/.gitignore b/packages/js-analyze-tests/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..677a6fc263
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/js-analyze-tests/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.build*
diff --git a/packages/js-analyze/js_analyze_tests.js b/packages/js-analyze-tests/js_analyze_tests.js
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/js-analyze/js_analyze_tests.js
rename to packages/js-analyze-tests/js_analyze_tests.js
diff --git a/packages/js-analyze-tests/package.js b/packages/js-analyze-tests/package.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a56fdb21d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/js-analyze-tests/package.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Package.describe({
+  summary: "Tests for JavaScript code analysis for Meteor"
+});
+
+// The tests are in a separate package so that it is possible to compile
+// 'js-analyze' as a unipackage and then load it via `unipackage.load` without
+// any dependencies.
+Package.on_test(function (api) {
+  api.use('tinytest');
+  api.use('js-analyze');
+  api.add_files('js_analyze_tests.js', 'server');
+});
diff --git a/packages/js-analyze/esprima_tests.js b/packages/js-analyze/esprima_tests.js
deleted file mode 100644
index a640a6af11..0000000000
--- a/packages/js-analyze/esprima_tests.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-var esprima = Npm.require('esprima');
-var escope = Npm.require('escope');
-var estraverse = Npm.require('estraverse');
-
-Tinytest.add("estools - parser", function (test) {
-  var tree = esprima.parse('1+1');
-  test.equal(tree, {
-    "type": "Program",
-    "body": [{
-      "type": "ExpressionStatement",
-      "expression": {
-        "type": "BinaryExpression",
-        "operator": "+",
-        "left": {
-          "type": "Literal",
-          "value": 1,
-          "raw": "1"
-        },
-        "right": {
-          "type": "Literal",
-          "value": 1,
-          "raw": "1"}}}]
-  });
-});
-
-Tinytest.add("estools - scoper", function (test) {
-  var tree = esprima.parse('var x = 1');
-  var scoper = escope.analyze(tree);
-  scoper.attach();
-
-  var getScope = function (node) {
-    return node[escope.Scope.mangledName];
-  };
-  var Syntax = estraverse.Syntax;
-
-  var refs = getScope(tree).references;
-  test.equal(refs.length, 1);
-  test.equal(refs[0].flag, escope.Reference.WRITE);
-  test.equal(refs[0].identifier, { type: Syntax.Identifier, name: "x" });
-});
diff --git a/packages/js-analyze/package.js b/packages/js-analyze/package.js
index 859439b115..175e910251 100644
--- a/packages/js-analyze/package.js
+++ b/packages/js-analyze/package.js
@@ -13,20 +13,13 @@ Npm.depends({
   escope: "0.0.14"
 });
 
-// This package may not depend on ANY other Meteor packages. This is because it
-// is used by the linker; the linker is smart enough not to try to apply it to
-// itself, but it cannot depend on any other packages or else it would be
-// impossible to load at link time (or all transitive dependencies packages
-// would need to function without the analysis provided by this package).
+// This package may not depend on ANY other Meteor packages, even in the test
+// slice. (Tests for this package are in the js-analyze-tests package.) This is
+// because it is used by the linker; the linker is smart enough not to try to
+// apply it to itself, but it cannot depend on any other packages or else it
+// would be impossible to load at link time (or all transitive dependencies
+// packages would need to function without the analysis provided by this
+// package).
 Package.on_use(function (api, where) {
   api.add_files('js_analyze.js', 'server');
 });
-
-// It's OK to have dependencies here, though, because unipackage.load doesn't
-// need to load dependencies of test slices.
-Package.on_test(function (api) {
-  api.use('tinytest');
-  api.use('js-analyze');
-  api.add_files('esprima_tests.js', 'server');
-  api.add_files('js_analyze_tests.js', 'server');
-});