diff --git a/test/addons/addons.status b/test/addons/addons.status
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..749648635a6602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/addons/addons.status
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+prefix addons
+
+# https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/16354 - known flaky after the upgrade
+# to V8 6.2 in https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/15362.  Most likely reason
+# is the increase of the maximum string length from 256 to 1024 MB, pushing
+# their execution times over the time limit.
+[$system==freebsd]
+stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-1-binary: FLAKY,PASS
+stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max-by-1-hex: FLAKY,PASS
+stringbytes-external-exceed-max/test-stringbytes-external-exceed-max: FLAKY,PASS
diff --git a/test/addons/testcfg.py b/test/addons/testcfg.py
index 908fd6a475cc39..6c61081fbb0bac 100644
--- a/test/addons/testcfg.py
+++ b/test/addons/testcfg.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 import testpy
 
 def GetConfiguration(context, root):
-  return testpy.AddonTestConfiguration(context, root, 'addon')
+  return testpy.AddonTestConfiguration(context, root, 'addons')