diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f2fee6660..dd7991dd2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
     "simple-git": "^2.28.0",
     "strip-bom": "^4.0.0",
     "strip-json-comments": "^3.1.1",
+    "tempy": "^1.0.0",
     "typedoc": "^0.20.24",
     "typescript": "4.1.5",
     "update-notifier": "^5.0.0",
diff --git a/src/test/node.js b/src/test/node.js
index 20d2f4b4d..43e5c61ab 100644
--- a/src/test/node.js
+++ b/src/test/node.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 const execa = require('execa')
 const path = require('path')
+const tempy = require('tempy')
 const { hook } = require('../utils')
 const merge = require('merge-options')
 
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ async function testNode (argv, execaOptions) {
     ? [
         '--reporter', 'json',
         '--report-dir', '.nyc_output',
+        '--temp-directory', tempy.directory(),
         '--clean',
         'mocha'
       ]