KWin was quite good in ensuring that you don't need to install by
passing paths to the tests. The new way is much nicer, so code is
adjusted for the new way. Also if we require a newer ECM in future we
need to support the new way.
No guarantee that the tests don't pick something up from the system env,
that needs more testing. Also I couldn't verify all tests, for unknown
reasons my system refuses to run any OpenGL tests (that issue was already
present before).
References: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Making_apps_run_uninstalled