diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index 7a8487c5..97340edf 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-MIGRATION_TEST_NAMES := $(shell ./run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl DUMP_NAMES)
-MIGRATION_TEST_TARGETS := $(addprefix test_migration_,$(MIGRATION_TEST_NAMES))
-
 all: test
 
 test: test_snapshot test_ovf test_cfg_to_cmd test_pci_addr_conflicts test_qemu_img_convert test_migration test_restore_config
@@ -21,6 +18,8 @@ test_qemu_img_convert: run_qemu_img_convert_tests.pl
 test_pci_addr_conflicts: run_pci_addr_checks.pl
 	./run_pci_addr_checks.pl
 
+MIGRATION_TEST_TARGETS := $(addprefix test_migration_,$(shell perl -ne 'print "$1 " if /^\s*name\s*=>\s*["'\'']([^\s"'\'']+)["'\'']\s*,\s*$/; END { print "\n" }' run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl))
+
 test_migration: run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl MigrationTest/*.pm $(MIGRATION_TEST_TARGETS)
 
 $(MIGRATION_TEST_TARGETS):
diff --git a/test/run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl b/test/run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl
index bbba5f97..090449f3 100755
--- a/test/run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl
+++ b/test/run_qemu_migrate_tests.pl
@@ -418,8 +418,9 @@ sub local_volids_for_vm {
 
 my $tests = [
 # each test consists of the following:
-# name           - unique name for the test which also serves as a dir name and
-#                  gets passed to make, so don't use whitespace or slash
+# name           - unique name for the test which also serves as a dir name.
+#                  NOTE: gets passed to make, so don't use whitespace or slash
+#                        and adapt buildsys (regex) on code structure changes
 # target         - hostname of target node
 # vmid           - ID of the VM to migrate
 # opts           - options for the migrate() call
@@ -1531,12 +1532,6 @@ my $tests = [
 
 my $single_test_name = shift;
 
-if (defined($single_test_name) && $single_test_name eq 'DUMP_NAMES') {
-    my $output = join(' ', map { $_->{name} } $tests->@*);
-    print "$output\n";
-    exit 0;
-}
-
 mkdir $RUN_DIR_PATH;
 
 foreach my $test (@{$tests}) {