diff --git a/ui-tests/test/mobile.spec.ts b/ui-tests/test/mobile.spec.ts
index d7bdaff92..3428b3aa2 100644
--- a/ui-tests/test/mobile.spec.ts
+++ b/ui-tests/test/mobile.spec.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import path from 'path';
 import { expect } from '@playwright/test';
 
 import { test } from './fixtures';
+import { waitForKernelReady } from './utils';
 
 test.use({ autoGoto: false, viewport: { width: 512, height: 768 } });
 
@@ -33,21 +34,7 @@ test.describe('Mobile', () => {
     // await page.notebook.run();
 
     // wait for the kernel status animations to be finished
-    await page.waitForSelector('.jp-RetroKernelStatus-fade');
-    await page.waitForFunction(() => {
-      const status = window.document.getElementsByClassName(
-        'jp-RetroKernelStatus'
-      )[0];
-
-      if (!status) {
-        return false;
-      }
-
-      const finished = status?.getAnimations().reduce((prev, curr) => {
-        return prev && curr.playState === 'finished';
-      }, true);
-      return finished;
-    });
+    await waitForKernelReady(page);
 
     expect(await page.screenshot()).toMatchSnapshot('notebook.png');
   });
diff --git a/ui-tests/test/notebook.spec.ts b/ui-tests/test/notebook.spec.ts
index f99e4edc2..a9248d311 100644
--- a/ui-tests/test/notebook.spec.ts
+++ b/ui-tests/test/notebook.spec.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 
 import path from 'path';
 
+import { expect } from '@playwright/test';
+
 import { test } from './fixtures';
 
-import { expect } from '@playwright/test';
+import { runAndAdvance, waitForKernelReady } from './utils';
 
 const NOTEBOOK = 'example.ipynb';
 
@@ -55,4 +57,38 @@ test.describe('Notebook', () => {
     const url = page.url();
     expect(url).toContain(newNameStripped);
   });
+
+  // TODO: rewrite with page.notebook when fixed upstream in Galata
+  // and usable in RetroLab without active tabs
+  test('Outputs should be scrolled automatically', async ({
+    page,
+    tmpPath
+  }) => {
+    const notebook = 'autoscroll.ipynb';
+    await page.contents.uploadFile(
+      path.resolve(__dirname, `./notebooks/${notebook}`),
+      `${tmpPath}/${notebook}`
+    );
+    await page.goto(`notebooks/${tmpPath}/${notebook}`);
+
+    await waitForKernelReady(page);
+    // run the two cells
+    await runAndAdvance(page);
+    await runAndAdvance(page);
+
+    await page.waitForSelector('.jp-Cell-outputArea pre');
+
+    const checkCell = async (n: number): Promise<boolean> => {
+      const scrolled = await page.$eval(`.jp-Notebook-cell >> nth=${n}`, el =>
+        el.classList.contains('jp-mod-outputsScrolled')
+      );
+      return scrolled;
+    };
+
+    // check the long output area is auto scrolled
+    expect(await checkCell(0)).toBe(true);
+
+    // check the short output area is not auto scrolled
+    expect(await checkCell(1)).toBe(false);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/ui-tests/test/notebooks/autoscroll.ipynb b/ui-tests/test/notebooks/autoscroll.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d386426b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui-tests/test/notebooks/autoscroll.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "6f7028b9-4d2c-4fa2-96ee-bfa77bbee434",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": ["print('1\\n' * 200)"]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "6f7028b9-4d2c-4fa2-96ee-bfa77bbee434",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": ["print('1\\n' * 20)"]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.9.7"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/ui-tests/test/utils.ts b/ui-tests/test/utils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1e71ac4ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui-tests/test/utils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { IJupyterLabPageFixture } from '@jupyterlab/galata';
+
+/**
+ * Run the selected cell and advance.
+ */
+export async function runAndAdvance(
+  page: IJupyterLabPageFixture
+): Promise<void> {
+  await page.click(
+    "//button[normalize-space(@title)='Run the selected cells and advance']"
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Wait for the kernel to be ready
+ */
+export async function waitForKernelReady(
+  page: IJupyterLabPageFixture
+): Promise<void> {
+  await page.waitForSelector('.jp-RetroKernelStatus-fade');
+  await page.waitForFunction(() => {
+    const status = window.document.getElementsByClassName(
+      'jp-RetroKernelStatus'
+    )[0];
+
+    if (!status) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    const finished = status?.getAnimations().reduce((prev, curr) => {
+      return prev && curr.playState === 'finished';
+    }, true);
+    return finished;
+  });
+}