diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ffe0dcbd62..6e34fe56c0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "support/expresso"]
 	path = support/expresso
 	url = git://github.com/visionmedia/expresso.git
+[submodule "support/connect"]
+	path = support/connect
+	url = git://github.com/extjs/Connect.git
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 617fe8715f..0cd324f972 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ MANPAGES =$(DOCS:.md=.1)
 HTMLDOCS =$(DOCS:.md=.html)
 
 test:
-	@CONNECT_ENV=test ./support/expresso/bin/expresso -I lib test/*.test.js
+	@CONNECT_ENV=test ./support/expresso/bin/expresso \
+		-I lib \
+		-I support/connect/lib \
+		test/*.test.js
 
 docs: docs/api.html $(MANPAGES) $(HTMLDOCS)
 
diff --git a/support/connect b/support/connect
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..147ab4bf6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/connect
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 147ab4bf6d8c4fe2e2f6929f21cedb802605e8c4