diff --git a/dependencies.json b/dependencies.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..838a86c0ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dependencies.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+    "recipesEndpoint": "",
+    "packages": [
+        {
+            "requirement": "dev-feature/schema-applier-4.6 as 4.6.x-dev",
+            "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/ibexa/doctrine-schema.git",
+            "package": "ibexa/doctrine-schema",
+            "shouldBeAddedAsVCS": false
+        }
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/phpstan-baseline.neon b/phpstan-baseline.neon
index 9b8ac82db4..6fbeac101b 100644
--- a/phpstan-baseline.neon
+++ b/phpstan-baseline.neon
@@ -8910,12 +8910,6 @@ parameters:
 			count: 1
 			path: src/contracts/Test/IbexaKernelTestCase.php
 
-		-
-			message: '#^Cannot call method importSchema\(\) on object\|null\.$#'
-			identifier: method.nonObject
-			count: 1
-			path: src/contracts/Test/IbexaKernelTestCase.php
-
 		-
 			message: '#^Method Ibexa\\Contracts\\Core\\Test\\Persistence\\Fixture\:\:load\(\) return type has no value type specified in iterable type array\.$#'
 			identifier: missingType.iterableValue
diff --git a/src/contracts/Test/IbexaKernelTestTrait.php b/src/contracts/Test/IbexaKernelTestTrait.php
index c40329634d..4c8a04a55d 100644
--- a/src/contracts/Test/IbexaKernelTestTrait.php
+++ b/src/contracts/Test/IbexaKernelTestTrait.php
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Repository\URLAliasService;
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Repository\UserService;
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Test\Persistence\Fixture\FixtureImporter;
+use Ibexa\Contracts\DoctrineSchema\Builder\SchemaBuilderInterface;
 use Ibexa\Core\Repository\Values\User\UserReference;
-use Ibexa\Tests\Core\Repository\LegacySchemaImporter;
+use Ibexa\DoctrineSchema\Builder\SchemaApplier;
 use RuntimeException;
 
 /**
@@ -34,14 +35,23 @@ trait IbexaKernelTestTrait
 {
     final protected static function loadSchema(): void
     {
-        $schemaImporter = self::getContainer()->get(LegacySchemaImporter::class);
-        foreach (static::getSchemaFiles() as $schemaFile) {
-            $schemaImporter->importSchema($schemaFile);
-        }
+        $schemaBuilder = self::getContainer()->get(SchemaBuilderInterface::class);
+        assert($schemaBuilder instanceof SchemaBuilderInterface);
+        $schema = $schemaBuilder->buildSchema();
+
+        // Constructed rather than fetched: SchemaApplier is a stateless helper, and its service is
+        // private and unreferenced in a plain test kernel, so the compiler removes it.
+        // drop first: this runs per test case, so the tables are normally already present
+        (new SchemaApplier(self::getDoctrineConnection()))->applySchema($schema, true);
     }
 
     /**
      * @return iterable<string>
+     *
+     * @deprecated since Ibexa 4.6.x, no longer used. {@see loadSchema()} now builds the schema from
+     *             {@see \Ibexa\Contracts\DoctrineSchema\Event\SchemaBuilderEvent} instead of reading
+     *             raw schema files, so a bundle contributes its tables through its own
+     *             BuildSchemaSubscriber and nothing needs to list files. Will be removed in 6.0.
      */
     protected static function getSchemaFiles(): iterable
     {
diff --git a/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernel.php b/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernel.php
index 5c89768f84..b02b40f594 100644
--- a/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernel.php
+++ b/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernel.php
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;
 use FOS\JsRoutingBundle\FOSJsRoutingBundle;
 use Ibexa\Bundle\Core\IbexaCoreBundle;
+use Ibexa\Bundle\DoctrineSchema\DoctrineSchemaBundle;
 use Ibexa\Bundle\LegacySearchEngine\IbexaLegacySearchEngineBundle;
+use Ibexa\Bundle\RepositoryInstaller\IbexaRepositoryInstallerBundle;
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Persistence\Handler;
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Persistence\TransactionHandler;
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Repository;
@@ -139,6 +141,8 @@ public function registerBundles(): iterable
     {
         yield new SecurityBundle();
         yield new IbexaCoreBundle();
+        yield new DoctrineSchemaBundle();
+        yield new IbexaRepositoryInstallerBundle();
         yield new IbexaLegacySearchEngineBundle();
         yield new JMSTranslationBundle();
         yield new FOSJsRoutingBundle();
diff --git a/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernelInterface.php b/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernelInterface.php
index 55f6e42186..460f27fa4d 100644
--- a/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernelInterface.php
+++ b/src/contracts/Test/IbexaTestKernelInterface.php
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ public static function getAliasServiceId(string $id): string;
 
     /**
      * @return iterable<string>
+     *
+     * @deprecated since Ibexa 4.6.x. Test schema is built from
+     *             {@see \Ibexa\Contracts\DoctrineSchema\Event\SchemaBuilderEvent} — the same path
+     *             `ibexa:install` uses — so a kernel no longer declares which schema files to load;
+     *             whichever bundles it registers is what the schema contains. Implementations may
+     *             return an empty iterable. Will be removed in 6.0.
      */
     public function getSchemaFiles(): iterable;
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/RepositoryInstaller/TestKernel.php b/tests/integration/RepositoryInstaller/TestKernel.php
index 6cee2d1315..b70e79cf72 100644
--- a/tests/integration/RepositoryInstaller/TestKernel.php
+++ b/tests/integration/RepositoryInstaller/TestKernel.php
@@ -8,21 +8,11 @@
 
 namespace Ibexa\Tests\Integration\RepositoryInstaller;
 
-use Ibexa\Bundle\DoctrineSchema\DoctrineSchemaBundle;
-use Ibexa\Bundle\RepositoryInstaller\IbexaRepositoryInstallerBundle;
 use Ibexa\Bundle\RepositoryInstaller\Installer\CoreInstaller;
 use Ibexa\Contracts\Core\Test\IbexaTestKernel;
 
 final class TestKernel extends IbexaTestKernel
 {
-    public function registerBundles(): iterable
-    {
-        yield from parent::registerBundles();
-
-        yield new DoctrineSchemaBundle();
-        yield new IbexaRepositoryInstallerBundle();
-    }
-
     protected static function getExposedServicesByClass(): iterable
     {
         yield from parent::getExposedServicesByClass();