diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 47741028726c137743c6bee7c69bcd224b01de60..1d34c446d2391a33c070557c1483f8593651485e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "tests/bats_helpers/bats-assert"]
 	path = tests/bats_helpers/bats-assert
 	url = https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert.git
+[submodule "tests/bats_helpers/bats-support"]
+	path = tests/bats_helpers/bats-support
+	url = https://github.com/bats-core/bats-support.git
diff --git a/tests/bats_helpers/bats-support b/tests/bats_helpers/bats-support
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d140a65044b2d6810381935ae7f0c94c7023c8c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/bats_helpers/bats-support
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d140a65044b2d6810381935ae7f0c94c7023c8c3
diff --git a/tests/test_mnpw.bats b/tests/test_mnpw.bats
index f5c028f6a4742fbfbc0f16a9664a7430a13576e9..d019edcfd8621fcdda769d6a5eff9e89cfba1b0c 100644
--- a/tests/test_mnpw.bats
+++ b/tests/test_mnpw.bats
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # vim:ft=bash
 
 setup () {
+    load "bats_helpers/bats-support/load"
     load "bats_helpers/bats-assert/load"
     PATH="$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../dist:$PATH"
 }