diff --git a/local-cli/core/__tests__/findPlugins.spec.js b/local-cli/core/__tests__/findPlugins.spec.js
index c25ab77c1b21fa..e0fb5aef5635ac 100644
--- a/local-cli/core/__tests__/findPlugins.spec.js
+++ b/local-cli/core/__tests__/findPlugins.spec.js
@@ -1,25 +1,37 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2013-present, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
 jest.autoMockOff();
 
 const path = require('path');
 const findPlugins = require('../findPlugins');
 
-const pjsonPath = path.join(process.cwd(), 'package.json');
+const ROOT = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', '..');
+const pjsonPath = path.join(ROOT, 'package.json');
 const isArray = (arg) =>
   Object.prototype.toString.call(arg) === '[object Array]';
 
 describe('findPlugins', () => {
 
+  beforeEach(() => jest.resetModules());
+
   it('should return an array of dependencies', () => {
-    jest.setMock(pjsonPath, {
+    jest.mock(pjsonPath, () => ({
       dependencies: { 'rnpm-plugin-test': '*' },
-    });
-    expect(findPlugins([process.cwd()]).length).toBe(1);
-    expect(findPlugins([process.cwd()])[0]).toBe('rnpm-plugin-test');
+    }));
+    expect(findPlugins([ROOT]).length).toBe(1);
+    expect(findPlugins([ROOT])[0]).toBe('rnpm-plugin-test');
   });
 
   it('should return an empty array if there\'re no plugins in this folder', () => {
-    jest.setMock(pjsonPath, {});
-    expect(findPlugins([process.cwd()]).length).toBe(0);
+    jest.mock(pjsonPath, () => ({}));
+    expect(findPlugins([ROOT]).length).toBe(0);
   });
 
   it('should return an empty array if there\'s no package.json in the supplied folder', () => {
@@ -28,19 +40,19 @@ describe('findPlugins', () => {
   });
 
   it('should return plugins from both dependencies and dev dependencies', () => {
-    jest.setMock(pjsonPath, {
+    jest.mock(pjsonPath, () => ({
       dependencies: { 'rnpm-plugin-test': '*' },
       devDependencies: { 'rnpm-plugin-test-2': '*' },
-    });
-    expect(findPlugins([process.cwd()]).length).toEqual(2);
+    }));
+    expect(findPlugins([ROOT]).length).toEqual(2);
   });
 
   it('should return unique list of plugins', () => {
-    jest.setMock(pjsonPath, {
+    jest.mock(pjsonPath, () => ({
       dependencies: { 'rnpm-plugin-test': '*' },
       devDependencies: { 'rnpm-plugin-test': '*' },
-    });
-    expect(findPlugins([process.cwd()]).length).toEqual(1);
+    }));
+    expect(findPlugins([ROOT]).length).toEqual(1);
   });
 
 });
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 810c7f9d04fc0d..50e7cd7d5ada7d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -11,8 +11,13 @@
     "node": ">=4"
   },
   "jest": {
+    "automock": true,
     "scriptPreprocessor": "jestSupport/preprocessor.js",
-    "setupEnvScriptFile": "jestSupport/env.js",
+    "setupFiles": [
+      "jestSupport/env.js"
+    ],
+    "timers": "fake",
+    "resetModules": true,
     "moduleNameMapper": {
       "^image![a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+$": "GlobalImageStub",
       "^[./a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+\\.png$": "RelativeImageStub"
@@ -203,9 +208,9 @@
     "eslint-plugin-flow-vars": "^0.2.1",
     "eslint-plugin-react": "^4.2.1",
     "flow-bin": "^0.31.1",
-    "jest": "~14.1.0",
-    "jest-repl": "~14.1.0",
-    "jest-runtime": "~14.1.0",
+    "jest": "15.1.0",
+    "jest-repl": "15.1.0",
+    "jest-runtime": "15.1.0",
     "mock-fs": "^3.11.0",
     "portfinder": "0.4.0",
     "react": "15.3.1-rc.2",