diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 52dc7edf7df39..fbf6645edc44c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5484,7 +5484,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sui_storage",
  "telemetry-subscribers",
  "tempfile",
- "test_utils",
+ "test-utils",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util 0.7.2",
  "toml",
@@ -5561,7 +5561,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sui-types",
  "sui_core",
  "tempfile",
- "test_utils",
+ "test-utils",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tower",
@@ -5855,7 +5855,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "temp_testdir",
  "tempfile",
  "test-fuzz",
- "test_utils",
+ "test-utils",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
@@ -6053,7 +6053,7 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "test_utils"
+name = "test-utils"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8629481e45c97..6cf04636fec2a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ members = [
     "crates/sui-types",
     "crates/sui-verifier",
     "crates/sui-verifier-transactional-tests",
+    "crates/test-utils",
     "crates/x",
     "sui",
     "sui_core",
     "sui_storage",
-    "test_utils",
 ]
 
 [profile.release]
diff --git a/crates/sui-faucet/Cargo.toml b/crates/sui-faucet/Cargo.toml
index 7f5e80ff08a8e..0d0e64720d307 100644
--- a/crates/sui-faucet/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/sui-faucet/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ sui_core = { path = "../../sui_core" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.3.0"
-test_utils = { path = "../../test_utils" }
+test-utils = { path = "../test-utils" }
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "sui-faucet"
diff --git a/test_utils/Cargo.toml b/crates/test-utils/Cargo.toml
similarity index 75%
rename from test_utils/Cargo.toml
rename to crates/test-utils/Cargo.toml
index 49e2227403359..d4c085d08d11b 100644
--- a/test_utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/test-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [package]
-name = "test_utils"
+name = "test-utils"
 authors = ["Mysten Labs <build@mystenlabs.com>"]
 version = "0.1.0"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
@@ -19,15 +19,15 @@ tracing = { version = "0.1.34", features = ["log"] }
 tempfile = "3.3.0"
 bcs = "0.1.3"
 
-sui-adapter = { path = "../crates/sui-adapter" }
-sui-framework = { path = "../crates/sui-framework" }
+sui-adapter = { path = "../sui-adapter" }
+sui-framework = { path = "../sui-framework" }
 move-package = { git = "https://github.com/move-language/move", rev = "1b2d3b4274345f5b4b6a1a1bde5aee452003ab5b" }
 move-core-types = { git = "https://github.com/move-language/move", rev = "1b2d3b4274345f5b4b6a1a1bde5aee452003ab5b", features = ["address20"] }
 typed-store = { git = "https://github.com/MystenLabs/mysten-infra", rev ="7c247967e5a5abd59ecaa75bc62b05bcdf4503fe"}
 narwhal-config = { git = "https://github.com/MystenLabs/narwhal", rev = "2c5e8236c0702a3ff47dd769c2bbc94b029bf4a9", package = "config" }
 
-sui-config = { path = "../crates/sui-config" }
-sui-types = { path = "../crates/sui-types" }
-sui_core = { path = "../sui_core" }
-sui-network = { path = "../crates/sui-network" }
-sui = { path = "../sui" }
+sui-config = { path = "../sui-config" }
+sui-types = { path = "../sui-types" }
+sui_core = { path = "../../sui_core" }
+sui-network = { path = "../sui-network" }
+sui = { path = "../../sui" }
diff --git a/test_utils/src/authority.rs b/crates/test-utils/src/authority.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from test_utils/src/authority.rs
rename to crates/test-utils/src/authority.rs
diff --git a/test_utils/src/lib.rs b/crates/test-utils/src/lib.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from test_utils/src/lib.rs
rename to crates/test-utils/src/lib.rs
diff --git a/test_utils/src/messages.rs b/crates/test-utils/src/messages.rs
similarity index 98%
rename from test_utils/src/messages.rs
rename to crates/test-utils/src/messages.rs
index 81d80fdb9c3bf..13a3ee5db7fc8 100644
--- a/test_utils/src/messages.rs
+++ b/crates/test-utils/src/messages.rs
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ pub fn test_shared_object_transactions() -> Vec<Transaction> {
 pub fn publish_move_package_transaction(gas_object: Object) -> Transaction {
     let build_config = BuildConfig::default();
     let mut path = PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"));
-    path.push("../sui_programmability/examples/basics");
+    path.push("../../sui_programmability/examples/basics");
     let modules = sui_framework::build_move_package(&path, build_config, false).unwrap();
 
     let all_module_bytes = modules
diff --git a/test_utils/src/network.rs b/crates/test-utils/src/network.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from test_utils/src/network.rs
rename to crates/test-utils/src/network.rs
diff --git a/test_utils/src/objects.rs b/crates/test-utils/src/objects.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from test_utils/src/objects.rs
rename to crates/test-utils/src/objects.rs
diff --git a/sui/Cargo.toml b/sui/Cargo.toml
index 21fb1f6d7dc6b..1511248c4cd66 100644
--- a/sui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sui/Cargo.toml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pretty_assertions = "1.2.0"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.2", features = ["codec"] }
 sui-node = { path = "../crates/sui-node" }
 
-test_utils = { path = "../test_utils" }
+test-utils = { path = "../crates/test-utils" }
 
 [features]
 benchmark = ["narwhal-node/benchmark"]
diff --git a/sui_core/Cargo.toml b/sui_core/Cargo.toml
index f236e1a222f4d..9230384b8f102 100644
--- a/sui_core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sui_core/Cargo.toml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ tracing-test = "0.2.1"
 tracing-subscriber = "^0.3"
 
 test-fuzz = "3.0.2"
-test_utils = { path = "../test_utils" }
+test-utils = { path = "../crates/test-utils" }
 
 [[example]]
 name = "generate-format"