{
  root,
  lib,
  pkgs,
  helpers,
}:
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
      lib.optional (lib.hasSuffix ".nix" name) [
        {
          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 returns 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 [ ]);

  testsListEvaluated = builtins.map (
    { cases, ... }@args:
    if builtins.isFunction cases then args // { cases = cases { inherit pkgs lib helpers; }; } else args
  ) 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 }:
    {
      name = lib.strings.concatStringsSep "-" namespace;
      cases = lib.mapAttrsToList (name: module: { inherit module name; }) cases;
    };
in
# A list of the form [ { name = "..."; modules = [ /* test cases */ ]; } ]
builtins.map handleTestFile testsListEvaluated