diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java
index f3ebf58184b3c..1c6f5009c660c 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/JunitTestRunner.java
@@ -73,8 +73,10 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.QuarkusClassWriter;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.ClassScanResult;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.DevModeContext;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.RuntimeUpdatesProcessor;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.util.IoUtil;
 import io.quarkus.dev.console.QuarkusConsole;
+import io.quarkus.dev.testing.TestWatchedFiles;
 import io.quarkus.dev.testing.TracingHandler;
 
 /**
@@ -379,6 +381,11 @@ public void reportingEntryPublished(TestIdentifier testIdentifier, ReportEntry e
 
                 QuarkusConsole.INSTANCE.setOutputFilter(null);
 
+                //this has to happen before notifying the listeners
+                Map<String, Boolean> watched = TestWatchedFiles.retrieveWatchedFilePaths();
+                if (watched != null) {
+                    RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.setWatchedFilePaths(watched, true);
+                }
                 for (TestRunListener listener : listeners) {
                     listener.runComplete(new TestRunResults(runId, classScanResult, classScanResult == null, start,
                             System.currentTimeMillis(), toResultsMap(testState.getCurrentResults())));
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/TestRunner.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/TestRunner.java
index 3c057a5422295..cdbe69cf0fdd4 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/TestRunner.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/dev/testing/TestRunner.java
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
 import io.quarkus.bootstrap.app.CuratedApplication;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.ClassScanResult;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.DevModeContext;
-import io.quarkus.deployment.dev.RuntimeUpdatesProcessor;
-import io.quarkus.dev.testing.TestWatchedFiles;
 import io.quarkus.runtime.configuration.HyphenateEnumConverter;
 
 public class TestRunner {
@@ -254,10 +252,6 @@ public void noTests(TestRunResults results) {
         synchronized (this) {
             runner = null;
         }
-        Map<String, Boolean> watched = TestWatchedFiles.retrieveWatchedFilePaths();
-        if (watched != null) {
-            RuntimeUpdatesProcessor.INSTANCE.setWatchedFilePaths(watched, true);
-        }
         if (disabled) {
             return;
         }