{
  root,
  lib,
  pkgs,
}: let
  # Handle an entry from readDir and either extract the configuration if its a regular file,
  # or continue to recurse if it's a directory. While recursing maintain a list of the traversed
  # directories
  handleEntry = relativePath: namespace: name: type: let
    file = "${root}/${relativePath}/${name}";
  in
    if type == "regular"
    then [
      {
        namespace = namespace ++ [(lib.strings.removeSuffix ".nix" name)];
        cases = import file;
      }
    ]
    else parseDirectories file (namespace ++ [name]);

  # Recurse into all directories, extracting files as we find them. This returs a deeply nested
  # list, where each non list element is a set of test cases.
  parseDirectories = path: namespace: let
    relativePath = lib.removePrefix "${root}" "${path}";

    children = builtins.readDir path;
    childrenFiltered =
      lib.attrsets.filterAttrs (n: v: v != "symlink") children;

    childrenRecursed =
      lib.attrsets.mapAttrsToList (handleEntry relativePath namespace) childrenFiltered;
  in
    childrenRecursed;

  # Remove the nesting
  testsList = lib.lists.flatten (parseDirectories root []);

  helpers = import ../lib/helpers.nix {inherit lib;};
  testsListEvaluated = builtins.map ({
      cases,
      namespace,
    } @ args:
      if builtins.isAttrs cases
      then args
      else {
        # cases is a function
        cases = cases {inherit pkgs helpers;};
        inherit namespace;
      })
  testsList;

  # Take a list of test cases (i.e the content of a file) and prepare a test case that can be
  # handled by mkTestDerivation
  handleTestFile = {
    namespace,
    cases,
  }:
    lib.attrsets.mapAttrs' (case: config: {
      name = lib.strings.concatStringsSep "-" (namespace ++ [case]);
      value = config;
    })
    cases;

  # Helper function that calls `//` for each attrset of a list
  concatMany = lib.lists.foldr lib.mergeAttrs {};
  # An attrset of 'test-name' -> 'test-config'
in
  concatMany (builtins.map handleTestFile testsListEvaluated)