diff --git a/tests/fetchPath.sh b/tests/fetchPath.sh
index 8f17638e9..29be38ce2 100644
--- a/tests/fetchPath.sh
+++ b/tests/fetchPath.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 source common.sh
 
-touch foo -t 202211111111
+touch $TEST_ROOT/foo -t 202211111111
 # We only check whether 2022-11-1* **:**:** is the last modified date since
 # `lastModified` is transformed into UTC in `builtins.fetchTarball`.
-[[ "$(nix eval --impure --raw --expr "(builtins.fetchTree \"path://$PWD/foo\").lastModifiedDate")" =~ 2022111.* ]]
+[[ "$(nix eval --impure --raw --expr "(builtins.fetchTree \"path://$TEST_ROOT/foo\").lastModifiedDate")" =~ 2022111.* ]]