diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
index c0de09909..55294feca 100644
--- a/conftest.py
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ collect_ignore = [
     # not a test, but looks like a test
     "scrapy/utils/testsite.py",
     # contains scripts to be run by tests/test_crawler.py::CrawlerProcessSubprocess
-    *_py_files("tests/CrawlerProcess")
+    *_py_files("tests/CrawlerProcess"),
+    *_py_files("tests/CrawlerRunner"),
 ]
 
 for line in open('tests/ignores.txt'):