diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md
--- a/doc/developer-notes.md
+++ b/doc/developer-notes.md
@@ -497,6 +497,12 @@
     should not interact with the user. That's where View classes come in. The converse also
     holds: try to not directly access core data structures from Views.
 
+Unit Tests
+-----------
+ - Test suite naming convention: The Boost test suite in file 
+   `src/test/foo_tests.cpp` should be named `foo_tests`. Test suite names must
+   be unique.
+
 Subtrees
 ----------
 
diff --git a/test/lint/lint-tests.sh b/test/lint/lint-tests.sh
new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/lint/lint-tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Copyright (c) 2019 The Bitcoin developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+#
+# Check the test suite naming conventions
+
+EXIT_CODE=0
+
+TOPDIR=${TOPDIR:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}
+
+NAMING_INCONSISTENCIES=$(git grep -E '^BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE\(' -- \
+    "${TOPDIR}/src/test/**.cpp" \
+    "${TOPDIR}/src/rpc/test/**.cpp" \
+    "${TOPDIR}/src/wallet/test/**.cpp" | \
+    grep -vE '/(.*?)\.cpp:BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE\(\1, .*\)$')
+if [[ ${NAMING_INCONSISTENCIES} != "" ]]; then
+    echo "The test suite in file src/test/foo_tests.cpp should be named"
+    echo "\"foo_tests\". Please make sure the following test suites follow"
+    echo "that convention:"
+    echo
+    echo "${NAMING_INCONSISTENCIES}"
+    EXIT_CODE=1
+fi
+
+TEST_SUITE_NAME_COLLISIONS=$(git grep -E '^BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE\(' -- \
+    "${TOPDIR}/src/test/**.cpp" \
+    "${TOPDIR}/src/rpc/test/**.cpp" \
+    "${TOPDIR}/src/wallet/test/**.cpp" | cut -f2 -d'(' | cut -f1 -d, | \
+    sort | uniq -d)
+if [[ ${TEST_SUITE_NAME_COLLISIONS} != "" ]]; then
+    echo "Test suite names must be unique. The following test suite names"
+    echo "appear to be used more than once:"
+    echo
+    echo "${TEST_SUITE_NAME_COLLISIONS}"
+    EXIT_CODE=1
+fi
+
+exit ${EXIT_CODE}