diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 96e28b1b0..8dde06ceb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ addons:
     - rsyslog
 
 install: "travis_retry pip install tox coveralls"
-before_script: '[ "xxx$BOULDER_INTEGRATION" = "xxx" ] || ./tests/boulder-start.sh'
-script: 'travis_retry tox && ([ "xxx$BOULDER_INTEGRATION" = "xxx" ] || (source .tox/$TOXENV/bin/activate && ./tests/boulder-integration.sh))'
+script: 'travis_retry tox && ([ "xxx$BOULDER_INTEGRATION" = "xxx" ] || ./tests/travis-integration.sh)'
 
 after_success: '[ "$TOXENV" == "cover" ] && coveralls'
 
diff --git a/tests/boulder-fetch.sh b/tests/boulder-fetch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..a2c31b1d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/boulder-fetch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Download and run Boulder instance for integration testing
+
+# ugh, go version output is like:
+# go version go1.4.2 linux/amd64
+GOVER=`go version | cut -d" " -f3 | cut -do -f2`
+
+# version comparison
+function verlte {
+  #OS X doesn't support version sorting; emulate with sed
+  if [ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]; then
+    [ "$1" = "`echo -e \"$1\n$2\" |  sed 's/\b\([0-9]\)\b/0\1/g' \
+      | sort | sed 's/\b0\([0-9]\)/\1/g' | head -n1`" ]
+  else
+    [  "$1" = "`echo -e "$1\n$2" | sort -V | head -n1`" ]
+  fi
+}
+
+if ! verlte 1.5 "$GOVER" ; then
+  echo "We require go version 1.5 or later; you have... $GOVER"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+set -xe
+
+# `/...` avoids `no buildable Go source files` errors, for more info
+# see `go help packages`
+go get -d github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/...
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
+# goose is needed for ./test/create_db.sh
+wget https://github.com/jsha/boulder-tools/raw/master/goose.gz && \
+  mkdir $GOPATH/bin && \
+  zcat goose.gz > $GOPATH/bin/goose && \
+  chmod +x $GOPATH/bin/goose
+./test/create_db.sh
+# listenbuddy is needed for ./start.py
+go get github.com/jsha/listenbuddy
+cd -
+
diff --git a/tests/boulder-start.sh b/tests/boulder-start.sh
index 47c1b6278..acf8f0bbf 100755
--- a/tests/boulder-start.sh
+++ b/tests/boulder-start.sh
@@ -1,43 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Download and run Boulder instance for integration testing
-
-
-# ugh, go version output is like:
-# go version go1.4.2 linux/amd64
-GOVER=`go version | cut -d" " -f3 | cut -do -f2`
-
-# version comparison
-function verlte {
-  #OS X doesn't support version sorting; emulate with sed
-  if [ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]; then
-    [ "$1" = "`echo -e \"$1\n$2\" |  sed 's/\b\([0-9]\)\b/0\1/g' \
-      | sort | sed 's/\b0\([0-9]\)/\1/g' | head -n1`" ]
-  else
-    [  "$1" = "`echo -e "$1\n$2" | sort -V | head -n1`" ]
-  fi
-}
-
-if ! verlte 1.5 "$GOVER" ; then
-  echo "We require go version 1.5 or later; you have... $GOVER"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-set -xe
 
 export GOPATH="${GOPATH:-/tmp/go}"
 export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"
 
-# `/...` avoids `no buildable Go source files` errors, for more info
-# see `go help packages`
-go get -d github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/...
+./tests/boulder-fetch.sh
+
 cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
-# goose is needed for ./test/create_db.sh
-wget https://github.com/jsha/boulder-tools/raw/master/goose.gz && \
-  mkdir $GOPATH/bin && \
-  zcat goose.gz > $GOPATH/bin/goose && \
-  chmod +x $GOPATH/bin/goose
-./test/create_db.sh
-# listenbuddy is needed for ./start.py
-go get github.com/jsha/listenbuddy
-./start.py &
-# Hopefully start.py bootstraps before integration test is started...
+./start.py
diff --git a/tests/travis-integration.sh b/tests/travis-integration.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3b507bb86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/travis-integration.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -o errexit
+
+./tests/boulder-fetch.sh
+
+source .tox/$TOXENV/bin/activate
+
+export LETSENCRYPT_PATH=`pwd`
+
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/
+
+# boulder's integration-test.py has code that knows to start and wait for the
+# boulder processes to start reliably and then will run the letsencrypt
+# boulder-interation.sh on its own. The --letsencrypt flag says to run only the
+# letsencrypt tests (instead of any other client tests it might run). We're
+# going to want to define a more robust interaction point between the boulder
+# and letsencrypt tests, but that will be better built off of this.
+python test/integration-test.py --letsencrypt