diff --git a/hugolib/resource_chain_test.go b/hugolib/resource_chain_test.go
index 39f867570..723a4b9d9 100644
--- a/hugolib/resource_chain_test.go
+++ b/hugolib/resource_chain_test.go
@@ -930,26 +930,3 @@ XML: {{ $xml.Content | safeHTML }}|{{ $xml.RelPermalink }}
 XML: <root>   <foo> asdfasdf </foo> </root>|/xml/data.min.3be4fddd19aaebb18c48dd6645215b822df74701957d6d36e59f203f9c30fd9f.xml
 `)
 }
-
-// Issue 8954
-func TestMinifyWithError(t *testing.T) {
-	b := newTestSitesBuilder(t).WithSimpleConfigFile()
-	b.WithSourceFile(
-		"assets/js/test.js", `
-new Date(2002, 04, 11)
-`,
-	)
-	b.WithTemplates("index.html", `
-{{ $js := resources.Get "js/test.js" | minify | fingerprint }}
-<script>
-{{ $js.Content }}
-</script>
-`)
-	b.WithContent("page.md", "")
-
-	err := b.BuildE(BuildCfg{})
-
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "04") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected a message about a legacy octal number, but got: %v", err)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/resources/resource_transformers/minifier/integration_test.go b/resources/resource_transformers/minifier/integration_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb4cc7a65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/resource_transformers/minifier/integration_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Copyright 2021 The Hugo Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package minifier_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	qt "github.com/frankban/quicktest"
+	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib"
+)
+
+// Issue 8954
+func TestTransformMinify(t *testing.T) {
+	c := qt.New(t)
+
+	files := `
+-- assets/js/test.js --
+new Date(2002, 04, 11)
+-- config.toml --
+-- layouts/index.html --
+{{ $js := resources.Get "js/test.js" | minify }}
+<script>
+{{ $js.Content }}
+</script>
+`
+
+	b, err := hugolib.NewIntegrationTestBuilder(
+		hugolib.IntegrationTestConfig{
+			T:           c,
+			TxtarString: files,
+		},
+	).BuildE()
+
+	b.Assert(err, qt.IsNotNil)
+	b.Assert(err, qt.ErrorMatches, "(?s).*legacy octal numbers.*line 1.*")
+}