diff -u b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/ViewsThemeIntegrationTest.php b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/ViewsThemeIntegrationTest.php
--- b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/ViewsThemeIntegrationTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/lib/Drupal/views/Tests/ViewsThemeIntegrationTest.php
@@ -7,14 +7,20 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\views\Tests;
 
-use Drupal\simpletest\WebTestBase;
-
 /**
  * As views uses a lot of theme related functionality we need to test these too.
  *
  * We test against test_basetheme and test_subtheme provided by theme_test
  */
-class ViewsThemeIntegrationTest extends WebTestBase {
+class ViewsThemeIntegrationTest extends ViewTestBase {
+
+ /**
+   * Views used by this test.
+   *
+   * @var array
+   */
+  public static $testViews = array('test_page_display');
+
 
   /**
    * Used by WebTestBase::setup()
@@ -25,7 +31,7 @@
    *
    * @see \Drupal\simpletest\WebTestBase::setup()
    */
-  public static $modules = array('views', 'node', 'user', 'theme_test');
+  public static $modules = array('views', 'theme_test');
 
   /**
    * {@inheritdoc}
@@ -34,7 +40,7 @@
     return array(
       'name' => 'Views theme integration test',
       'description' => 'Tests the Views theme integration.',
-      'group' => 'Views theming',
+      'group' => 'Views',
     );
   }
 
@@ -43,33 +49,15 @@
    */
   protected function setUp() {
     parent::setUp();
+
+    $this->enableViewsTestModule();
   }
 
   /**
-   * Tests for exceptions.
+   * Tests for exceptions and successful execution of hook_views_pre_render()
+   * and hook_views_post_render() in theme and subtheme.
    */
-  public function testNodesPage() {
-
-    $account = $this->drupalCreateUser(array());
-    $this->drupalLogin($account);
-
-    // Create article for view on the frontpage.
-    $type_values = array(
-      'type' => 'article',
-      'name' => 'Basic article',
-      'published' => TRUE,
-      'promote' => TRUE,
-    );
-    $this->drupalCreateContentType($type_values);
-
-    $values['type'] = 'article';
-    $values['title'] = $this->randomName();
-    $values['promote'] = TRUE;
-    $values['status'] = TRUE;
-    $values['created'] = REQUEST_TIME;
-
-    $node = $this->drupalCreateNode($values);
-    $this->drupalGet('node/' . $node->id());
+  public function testThemedViewPage() {
 
     \Drupal::service('theme_handler')->enable(array('test_basetheme', 'test_subtheme'));
 
@@ -80,8 +68,7 @@
     $this->assertEqual(\Drupal::config('system.theme')->get('default'), 'test_basetheme');
 
     // Make sure a views rendered page is touched.
-    $this->drupalGet('node');
-    $this->assertRaw($values['title'], "Title found");
+    $this->drupalGet('test_page_display_200');
 
     $this->assertRaw("test_basetheme_views_pre_render", "Views title changed by test_basetheme.test_basetheme_views_pre_render");
     $this->assertRaw("test_basetheme_views_post_render", "Views title changed by test_basetheme.test_basetheme_views_post_render");
@@ -94,8 +81,7 @@
     $this->assertEqual(\Drupal::config('system.theme')->get('default'), 'test_subtheme');
 
     // Make sure a views rendered page is touched.
-    $this->drupalGet('node');
-    $this->assertRaw($values['title'], "Title found");
+    $this->drupalGet('test_page_display_200');
 
     $this->assertRaw("test_subtheme_views_pre_render", "Views title changed by test_usetheme.test_subtheme_views_pre_render");
     $this->assertRaw("test_subtheme_views_post_render", "Views title changed by test_usetheme.test_subtheme_views_post_render");