diff --git a/dev/bots/test.dart b/dev/bots/test.dart
index 2993ca94ac..111dc3732c 100644
--- a/dev/bots/test.dart
+++ b/dev/bots/test.dart
@@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ Future<void> _runToolTests() async {
         forceSingleCore: subshard != 'general',
         testPaths: <String>[path.join(kTest, '$subshard$kDotShard', suffix)],
         enableFlutterToolAsserts: subshard != 'general',
+        // Detect unit test time regressions (poor time delay handling, etc).
+        perTestTimeout: (subshard == 'general') ? const Duration(seconds: 2) : null,
       );
     },
   );
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/test/general.shard/resident_runner_test.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/test/general.shard/resident_runner_test.dart
index 70c730c262..85fb96ce2e 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/test/general.shard/resident_runner_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/test/general.shard/resident_runner_test.dart
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ void main() {
     expect(result.code, 1);
     expect(result.message, contains('Device initialization has not completed.'));
     expect(fakeVmServiceHost.hasRemainingExpectations, false);
-  }));
+  }), timeout: const Timeout(Duration(seconds: 15))); // https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/74539
 
   testUsingContext('ResidentRunner can handle an reload-barred exception from hot reload', () => testbed.run(() async {
     fakeVmServiceHost = FakeVmServiceHost(requests: <VmServiceExpectation>[
diff --git a/packages/flutter_tools/test/src/context.dart b/packages/flutter_tools/test/src/context.dart
index c86e1825be..bca89a247c 100644
--- a/packages/flutter_tools/test/src/context.dart
+++ b/packages/flutter_tools/test/src/context.dart
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ void testUsingContext(
   Map<Type, Generator> overrides = const <Type, Generator>{},
   bool initializeFlutterRoot = true,
   String testOn,
+  Timeout timeout,
   bool skip, // should default to `false`, but https://github.com/dart-lang/test/issues/545 doesn't allow this
 }) {
   if (overrides[FileSystem] != null && overrides[ProcessManager] == null) {
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ void testUsingContext(
       // BotDetector implementation in the overrides.
       BotDetector: overrides[BotDetector] ?? () => const AlwaysTrueBotDetector(),
     });
-  }, testOn: testOn, skip: skip);
+  }, testOn: testOn, skip: skip, timeout: timeout);
 }
 
 void _printBufferedErrors(AppContext testContext) {