.../views/src/Tests/Handler/AreaViewTest.php       |  2 +-
 core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewTestData.php      |  9 ++---
 core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewUnitTestBase.php  | 12 +++++--
 .../test_views/views.view.test_tag_cache.yml       | 39 ----------------------
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/modules/views/src/Tests/Handler/AreaViewTest.php b/core/modules/views/src/Tests/Handler/AreaViewTest.php
index 16bd12e..7f93855 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/src/Tests/Handler/AreaViewTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/src/Tests/Handler/AreaViewTest.php
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class AreaViewTest extends ViewUnitTestBase {
    *
    * @var array
    */
-  public static $testViews = array('test_area_view', 'test_simple_argument');
+  public static $testViews = array('test_simple_argument', 'test_area_view');
 
   /**
    * Tests the view area handler.
diff --git a/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewTestData.php b/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewTestData.php
index 97f2d66..03c4bae 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewTestData.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewTestData.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class ViewTestData {
    * Create test views from config.
    *
    * @param string $class
-   *   The name of the test class.
+   *   The name of the test class. Installs the listed test views *in order*.
    * @param array $modules
    *   The module directories to look in for test views.
    */
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ public static function createTestViews($class, array $modules) {
         }
 
         $file_storage = new FileStorage($config_dir);
-        foreach ($file_storage->listAll('views.view.') as $config_name) {
-          $id = str_replace('views.view.', '', $config_name);
-          if (in_array($id, $views)) {
+        $available_views = $file_storage->listAll('views.view.');
+        foreach ($views as $id) {
+          $config_name = 'views.view.' . $id;
+          if (in_array($config_name, $available_views)) {
             $storage
               ->create($file_storage->read($config_name))
               ->save();
diff --git a/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewUnitTestBase.php b/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewUnitTestBase.php
index a5bdd3e..6bbd44f 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewUnitTestBase.php
+++ b/core/modules/views/src/Tests/ViewUnitTestBase.php
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ protected function setUp() {
    * using it, it cannot be enabled normally.
    */
   protected function setUpFixtures() {
+    // First install the system module first; many Views have Page displays that
+    // have associated menu links, for those to work, the system menus must
+    // already be present.
+    // @todo Get rid of ViewTestData::createTestViews, in favor of fixing the
+    //   config dependencies in all tested view config entities, which will then
+    //   allow us to use ConfigInstaller instead, which automatically handles
+    //   dependencies.
+    $this->installConfig(array('system'));
+
     // Define the schema and views data variable before enabling the test module.
     \Drupal::state()->set('views_test_data_schema', $this->schemaDefinition());
     \Drupal::state()->set('views_test_data_views_data', $this->viewsData());
@@ -75,9 +84,6 @@ protected function setUpFixtures() {
     }
     $query->execute();
 
-    // Tests implementing ViewUnitTestBase depend on the theme system being
-    // properly configured.
-    $this->installConfig(array('system'));
     ViewTestData::createTestViews(get_class($this), array('views_test_config'));
   }
 
diff --git a/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_tag_cache.yml b/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_tag_cache.yml
index b83e7a8..ae2ccc5 100644
--- a/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_tag_cache.yml
+++ b/core/modules/views/tests/modules/views_test_config/test_views/views.view.test_tag_cache.yml
@@ -53,45 +53,6 @@ display:
           hide_alter_empty: true
           link_to_node: true
           plugin_id: node
-      filters:
-        type:
-          id: type
-          table: node_field_data
-          field: type
-          relationship: none
-          group_type: group
-          admin_label: ''
-          operator: in
-          value:
-            page: page
-          group: 1
-          exposed: false
-          expose:
-            operator_id: ''
-            label: ''
-            description: ''
-            use_operator: false
-            operator: ''
-            identifier: ''
-            required: false
-            remember: false
-            multiple: false
-            remember_roles:
-              authenticated: authenticated
-            reduce: false
-          is_grouped: false
-          group_info:
-            label: ''
-            description: ''
-            identifier: ''
-            optional: true
-            widget: select
-            multiple: false
-            remember: false
-            default_group: All
-            default_group_multiple: {  }
-            group_items: {  }
-          plugin_id: bundle
       group_by: true
       pager:
         type: some