diff --git a/test/phpunit/CoreTest.php b/test/phpunit/CoreTest.php
index 7ca6b78856b..24101beedbe 100755
--- a/test/phpunit/CoreTest.php
+++ b/test/phpunit/CoreTest.php
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 global $conf,$user,$langs,$db;
 //define('TEST_DB_FORCE_TYPE','mysql');	// This is to force using mysql driver
 require_once 'PHPUnit/Autoload.php';
+require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/../../htdocs/master.inc.php';
 
 if (! defined('NOREQUIREUSER'))  define('NOREQUIREUSER','1');
 if (! defined('NOREQUIREDB'))    define('NOREQUIREDB','1');