diff --git a/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/package.template.json b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/package.template.json
index 62d948a709f3..1c6cc11e7349 100644
--- a/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/package.template.json
+++ b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/package.template.json
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
 	"scripts": {
 		"dev": "svelte-kit dev",
 		"build": "svelte-kit build",
-		"preview": "svelte-kit preview"
+		"preview": "svelte-kit preview",
+		"test": "wtr \"src/**/*.test.js\""
 	},
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"@sveltejs/kit": "workspace:*",
+		"@web/test-runner": "^0.13.5",
+		"assert": "^2.0.0",
 		"svelte": "^3.34.0"
 	},
 	"type": "module",
diff --git a/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/src/test/Counter.test.js b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/src/test/Counter.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..52fff80d89e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/src/test/Counter.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { strict as assert } from 'assert';
+import Counter from '$lib/Counter/index.svelte';
+
+describe('Counter', () => {
+	it('should increment when plus button is clicked', async () => {
+		const target = document.getElementById('svelte');
+		new Counter({ target });
+		const plusButton = target.getElementsByTagName('button')[1];
+		const counter = target.querySelectorAll('.counter-digits strong')[1];
+		assert.equal(counter.innerText, '0');
+		plusButton.click();
+		// you probably want to use fake timers in your real tests!
+		await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
+		assert.equal(counter.innerText, '1');
+	});
+});
diff --git a/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/src/test/HomePage.test.js b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/src/test/HomePage.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6a57fc24d1e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/src/test/HomePage.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import { strict as assert } from 'assert';
+import HomePage from '../routes/index.svelte';
+
+describe('HomePage', () => {
+	it('should render', () => {
+		const target = document.getElementById('svelte');
+		new HomePage({ target });
+		assert(/try editing src\/routes\/index.svelte/.test(target.innerText));
+	});
+});
diff --git a/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/web-test-runner.config.js b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/web-test-runner.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dced7dae8d56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/create-svelte/templates/default/web-test-runner.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import { spawn } from 'child_process';
+
+/*
+ * Implementing plugin inline as a POC. This would be extracted to a separate
+ * npm module following a pattern similar to @snowpack/web-test-runner-plugin:
+ * https://github.com/snowpackjs/snowpack/tree/main/plugins/web-test-runner-plugin
+ * or vite-web-test-runner-plugin:
+ * https://github.com/betaboon/vite-web-test-runner-plugin
+ */
+const svelteKitPlugin = function () {
+	let server;
+
+	// quick hack; use more resilient approach in real plugin
+	function randomPort(min = 49152, max = 65535) {
+		return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min) + min);
+	}
+
+	// Currently, svelte-kit does not expose a method to the outside world to
+	// start a dev server in JS-land. Work-around for POC: spawn a child process
+	// that shells-out to svelte-kit cli. For real plugin, extract and export a
+	// method from svelte-kit to start a dev server.
+	function startTestServer(port) {
+		const testServer = spawn('npx', ['svelte-kit', 'dev', `--port=${port}`]);
+
+		testServer.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
+			console.error(data.toString());
+		});
+
+		testServer.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
+			console.log(data.toString());
+		});
+
+		return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+			testServer.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
+				if (/http:\/\/localhost:\d+/.test(data)) {
+					resolve(testServer);
+				}
+			});
+
+			testServer.on('close', reject);
+		});
+	}
+
+	return {
+		name: 'svelte-kit-plugin',
+
+		async serverStart({ app }) {
+			const port = randomPort();
+			server = await startTestServer(port);
+			app.use((ctx, next) => {
+				ctx.redirect(`http://localhost:${port}${ctx.originalUrl}`);
+			});
+		},
+
+		async serverStop() {
+			return server.kill();
+		}
+	};
+};
+
+process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';
+
+export default {
+	plugins: [svelteKitPlugin()],
+	testRunnerHtml: (testFramework) => `
+    <html>
+      <head>
+        <script>
+          global = window;
+          process = { env: { NODE_ENV: "test" } };
+        </script>
+        <script type="module" src="${testFramework}"></script>
+      </head>
+      <body>
+        <div id="svelte"></div>
+      </body>
+    </html>
+  `
+};