diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b71bca5b63..c690e05fb4 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "anyhow"
+version = "1.0.56"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4361135be9122e0870de935d7c439aef945b9f9ddd4199a553b5270b49c82a27"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "arrayvec"
 version = "0.4.12"
@@ -148,6 +154,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "boa_tester"
 version = "0.14.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
  "bitflags",
  "boa_engine",
  "boa_interner",
diff --git a/boa_tester/Cargo.toml b/boa_tester/Cargo.toml
index f148ffe659..4a68eeb73b 100644
--- a/boa_tester/Cargo.toml
+++ b/boa_tester/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ hex = "0.4.3"
 num-format = "0.4.0"
 gc = { version = "0.4.1", features = ["derive"] }
 rayon = "1.5.1"
+anyhow = "1.0.56"
diff --git a/boa_tester/src/main.rs b/boa_tester/src/main.rs
index d8895830ef..b4a7b69b3c 100644
--- a/boa_tester/src/main.rs
+++ b/boa_tester/src/main.rs
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ use self::{
     read::{read_harness, read_suite, read_test, MetaData, Negative, TestFlag},
     results::{compare_results, write_json},
 };
+use anyhow::{bail, Context};
 use bitflags::bitflags;
 use colored::Colorize;
 use fxhash::{FxHashMap, FxHashSet};
@@ -242,13 +243,21 @@ fn main() {
             output,
             disable_parallelism,
         } => {
-            run_test_suite(
+            if let Err(e) = run_test_suite(
                 verbose,
                 !disable_parallelism,
                 test262_path.as_path(),
                 suite.as_path(),
                 output.as_deref(),
-            );
+            ) {
+                eprintln!("Error: {e}");
+                let mut src = e.source();
+                while let Some(e) = src {
+                    eprintln!("    caused by: {e}");
+                    src = e.source();
+                }
+                std::process::exit(1);
+            }
         }
         Cli::Compare {
             base,
@@ -265,25 +274,27 @@ fn run_test_suite(
     test262_path: &Path,
     suite: &Path,
     output: Option<&Path>,
-) {
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     if let Some(path) = output {
         if path.exists() {
             if !path.is_dir() {
-                eprintln!("The output path must be a directory.");
-                std::process::exit(1);
+                bail!("the output path must be a directory.");
             }
         } else {
-            fs::create_dir_all(path).expect("could not create the output directory");
+            fs::create_dir_all(path).context("could not create the output directory")?;
         }
     }
 
     if verbose != 0 {
         println!("Loading the test suite...");
     }
-    let harness = read_harness(test262_path).expect("could not read initialization bindings");
+    let harness = read_harness(test262_path).context("could not read harness")?;
 
     if suite.to_string_lossy().ends_with(".js") {
-        let test = read_test(&test262_path.join(suite)).expect("could not get the test to run");
+        let test = read_test(&test262_path.join(suite)).with_context(|| {
+            let suite = suite.display();
+            format!("could not read the test {suite}")
+        })?;
 
         if verbose != 0 {
             println!("Test loaded, starting...");
@@ -292,8 +303,10 @@ fn run_test_suite(
 
         println!();
     } else {
-        let suite =
-            read_suite(&test262_path.join(suite)).expect("could not get the list of tests to run");
+        let suite = read_suite(&test262_path.join(suite)).with_context(|| {
+            let suite = suite.display();
+            format!("could not read the suite {suite}")
+        })?;
 
         if verbose != 0 {
             println!("Test suite loaded, starting tests...");
@@ -318,8 +331,10 @@ fn run_test_suite(
         );
 
         write_json(results, output, verbose)
-            .expect("could not write the results to the output JSON file");
+            .context("could not write the results to the output JSON file")?;
     }
+
+    Ok(())
 }
 
 /// All the harness include files.
diff --git a/boa_tester/src/read.rs b/boa_tester/src/read.rs
index ba7595fc7d..092737ed19 100644
--- a/boa_tester/src/read.rs
+++ b/boa_tester/src/read.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 //! Module to read the list of test suites from disk.
 
 use super::{Harness, Locale, Phase, Test, TestSuite, IGNORED};
+use anyhow::Context;
 use fxhash::FxHashMap;
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::{fs, io, path::Path, str::FromStr};
@@ -73,10 +74,12 @@ impl FromStr for TestFlag {
 }
 
 /// Reads the Test262 defined bindings.
-pub(super) fn read_harness(test262_path: &Path) -> io::Result<Harness> {
+pub(super) fn read_harness(test262_path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<Harness> {
     let mut includes = FxHashMap::default();
 
-    for entry in fs::read_dir(test262_path.join("harness"))? {
+    for entry in
+        fs::read_dir(test262_path.join("harness")).context("error reading the harness directory")?
+    {
         let entry = entry?;
         let file_name = entry.file_name();
         let file_name = file_name.to_string_lossy();
@@ -85,15 +88,20 @@ pub(super) fn read_harness(test262_path: &Path) -> io::Result<Harness> {
             continue;
         }
 
-        let content = fs::read_to_string(entry.path())?;
+        let content = fs::read_to_string(entry.path())
+            .with_context(|| format!("error reading the harnes/{file_name}"))?;
 
         includes.insert(
             file_name.into_owned().into_boxed_str(),
             content.into_boxed_str(),
         );
     }
-    let assert = fs::read_to_string(test262_path.join("harness/assert.js"))?.into_boxed_str();
-    let sta = fs::read_to_string(test262_path.join("harness/sta.js"))?.into_boxed_str();
+    let assert = fs::read_to_string(test262_path.join("harness/assert.js"))
+        .context("error reading harnes/assert.js")?
+        .into_boxed_str();
+    let sta = fs::read_to_string(test262_path.join("harness/sta.js"))
+        .context("error reading harnes/sta.js")?
+        .into_boxed_str();
 
     Ok(Harness {
         assert,
@@ -103,32 +111,26 @@ pub(super) fn read_harness(test262_path: &Path) -> io::Result<Harness> {
 }
 
 /// Reads a test suite in the given path.
-pub(super) fn read_suite(path: &Path) -> io::Result<TestSuite> {
+pub(super) fn read_suite(path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<TestSuite> {
     let name = path
         .file_name()
-        .ok_or_else(|| {
-            io::Error::new(
-                io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
-                format!("test suite with no name found: {}", path.display()),
-            )
-        })?
+        .with_context(|| format!("test suite with no name found: {}", path.display()))?
         .to_str()
-        .ok_or_else(|| {
-            io::Error::new(
-                io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
-                format!("non-UTF-8 suite name found: {}", path.display()),
-            )
-        })?;
+        .with_context(|| format!("non-UTF-8 suite name found: {}", path.display()))?;
 
     let mut suites = Vec::new();
     let mut tests = Vec::new();
 
     // TODO: iterate in parallel
-    for entry in path.read_dir()? {
+    for entry in path.read_dir().context("retrieving entry")? {
         let entry = entry?;
 
-        if entry.file_type()?.is_dir() {
-            suites.push(read_suite(entry.path().as_path())?);
+        if entry.file_type().context("retrieving file type")?.is_dir() {
+            suites.push(read_suite(entry.path().as_path()).with_context(|| {
+                let path = entry.path();
+                let suite = path.display();
+                format!("error reading sub-suite {suite}")
+            })?);
         } else if entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().contains("_FIXTURE") {
             continue;
         } else if IGNORED.contains_file(&entry.file_name().to_string_lossy()) {
@@ -136,7 +138,11 @@ pub(super) fn read_suite(path: &Path) -> io::Result<TestSuite> {
             test.set_name(entry.file_name().to_string_lossy());
             tests.push(test);
         } else {
-            tests.push(read_test(entry.path().as_path())?);
+            tests.push(read_test(entry.path().as_path()).with_context(|| {
+                let path = entry.path();
+                let suite = path.display();
+                format!("error reading test {suite}")
+            })?);
         }
     }