diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginepage/tst_qwebenginepage.cpp b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginepage/tst_qwebenginepage.cpp
index 4cb8e23e552fa1f6fc9431a8b40c24c2be75034f..bea44f73cae8a144295bd9151cccc153d04c7349 100644
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginepage/tst_qwebenginepage.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginepage/tst_qwebenginepage.cpp
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ private Q_SLOTS:
     void updatePositionDependentActionsCrash();
     void createPluginWithPluginsEnabled();
     void createPluginWithPluginsDisabled();
+    void callbackSpyDeleted();
     void destroyPlugin_data();
     void destroyPlugin();
     void createViewlessPlugin_data();
@@ -441,6 +442,22 @@ static QImage imageWithoutAlpha(const QImage &image)
     return result;
 }
 
+void tst_QWebEnginePage::callbackSpyDeleted()
+{
+    QWebEnginePage *page = m_view->page();
+    CallbackSpy<QVariant> spy;
+    QString poorManSleep("function wait(ms){"
+                         "  var start = new Date().getTime();"
+                         "  var end = start;"
+                         "  while (start + ms > end) {"
+                             "end = new Date().getTime();"
+                         "  }"
+                         "}"
+                        "wait(1000);");
+    page->runJavaScript(poorManSleep, spy.ref());
+    //spy deleted before callback
+}
+
 void tst_QWebEnginePage::pasteImage()
 {
     // Pixels with an alpha value of 0 will have different RGB values after the
diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/util.h b/tests/auto/widgets/util.h
index 356cf6ebb136d56e9772b72ad9c5667e2700fa88..ab3b9e6b900c86efd38f9fdbded764390e62bf16 100644
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/util.h
+++ b/tests/auto/widgets/util.h
@@ -67,15 +67,16 @@ public:
 };
 
 template<typename T, typename R>
-struct RefWrapper {
-    R &ref;
+struct CallbackWrapper {
+    QPointer<R> p;
     void operator()(const T& result) {
-        ref(result);
+        if (p)
+            (*p)(result);
     }
 };
 
 template<typename T>
-class CallbackSpy {
+class CallbackSpy: public QObject {
 public:
     CallbackSpy() : called(false) {
         timeoutTimer.setSingleShot(true);
@@ -100,10 +101,9 @@ public:
         eventLoop.quit();
     }
 
-    // Cheap rip-off of boost/std::ref
-    RefWrapper<T, CallbackSpy<T> > ref()
+    CallbackWrapper<T, CallbackSpy<T> > ref()
     {
-        RefWrapper<T, CallbackSpy<T> > wrapper = {*this};
+        CallbackWrapper<T, CallbackSpy<T> > wrapper = {this};
         return wrapper;
     }