diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py
index c6bd5a1f6a..b048948386 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/bblayers.py
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
 
 class BitbakeLayers(OESelftestTestCase):
 
-    def setUpLocal(self):
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        super(BitbakeLayers, cls).setUpClass()
         bitbake("python3-jsonschema-native")
         bitbake("-c addto_recipe_sysroot python3-jsonschema-native")