diff --git a/internal/lsp/source/completion/statements.go b/internal/lsp/source/completion/statements.go
index 62d3cf0ed0..3280bb52c8 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/source/completion/statements.go
+++ b/internal/lsp/source/completion/statements.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import (
 // addStatementCandidates adds full statement completion candidates
 // appropriate for the current context.
 func (c *completer) addStatementCandidates() {
-	c.addErrCheckAndReturn()
+	c.addErrCheck()
 	c.addAssignAppend()
 }
 
@@ -162,27 +162,36 @@ func (c *completer) topCandidate() *CompletionItem {
 	return bestItem
 }
 
-// addErrCheckAndReturn offers a completion candidate of the form:
+// addErrCheck offers a completion candidate of the form:
 //
 //     if err != nil {
 //       return nil, err
 //     }
 //
+// In the case of test functions, it offers a completion candidate of the form:
+//
+//     if err != nil {
+//       t.Fatal(err)
+//     }
+//
 // The position must be in a function that returns an error, and the
 // statement preceding the position must be an assignment where the
-// final LHS object is an error. addErrCheckAndReturn will synthesize
+// final LHS object is an error. addErrCheck will synthesize
 // zero values as necessary to make the return statement valid.
-func (c *completer) addErrCheckAndReturn() {
+func (c *completer) addErrCheck() {
 	if len(c.path) < 2 || c.enclosingFunc == nil || !c.opts.placeholders {
 		return
 	}
 
 	var (
-		errorType = types.Universe.Lookup("error").Type()
-		result    = c.enclosingFunc.sig.Results()
+		errorType        = types.Universe.Lookup("error").Type()
+		result           = c.enclosingFunc.sig.Results()
+		testVar          = getTestVar(c.enclosingFunc, c.pkg)
+		isTest           = testVar != ""
+		doesNotReturnErr = result.Len() == 0 || !types.Identical(result.At(result.Len()-1).Type(), errorType)
 	)
-	// Make sure our enclosing function returns an error.
-	if result.Len() == 0 || !types.Identical(result.At(result.Len()-1).Type(), errorType) {
+	// Make sure our enclosing function is a Test func or returns an error.
+	if !isTest && doesNotReturnErr {
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -205,15 +214,17 @@ func (c *completer) addErrCheckAndReturn() {
 	}
 
 	var (
-		// errText is e.g. "err" in "foo, err := bar()".
-		errText = source.FormatNode(c.snapshot.FileSet(), lastAssignee)
+		// errVar is e.g. "err" in "foo, err := bar()".
+		errVar = source.FormatNode(c.snapshot.FileSet(), lastAssignee)
 
 		// Whether we need to include the "if" keyword in our candidate.
 		needsIf = true
 	)
 
-	// "_" isn't a real object.
-	if errText == "_" {
+	// If the returned error from the previous statement is "_", it is not a real object.
+	// If we don't have an error, and the function signature takes a testing.TB that is either ignored
+	// or an "_", then we also can't call t.Fatal(err).
+	if errVar == "_" {
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -240,7 +251,7 @@ func (c *completer) addErrCheckAndReturn() {
 			//     if er<>
 
 			// Make sure they are typing the error's name.
-			if c.matcher.Score(errText) <= 0 {
+			if c.matcher.Score(errVar) <= 0 {
 				return
 			}
 
@@ -277,20 +288,26 @@ func (c *completer) addErrCheckAndReturn() {
 	if needsIf {
 		snip.WriteText("if ")
 	}
-	snip.WriteText(fmt.Sprintf("%s != nil {\n\treturn ", errText))
+	snip.WriteText(fmt.Sprintf("%s != nil {\n\t", errVar))
 
-	for i := 0; i < result.Len()-1; i++ {
-		snip.WriteText(formatZeroValue(result.At(i).Type(), c.qf))
-		snip.WriteText(", ")
+	var label string
+	if isTest {
+		snip.WriteText(fmt.Sprintf("%s.Fatal(%s)", testVar, errVar))
+		label = fmt.Sprintf("%[1]s != nil { %[2]s.Fatal(%[1]s) }", errVar, testVar)
+	} else {
+		snip.WriteText("return ")
+		for i := 0; i < result.Len()-1; i++ {
+			snip.WriteText(formatZeroValue(result.At(i).Type(), c.qf))
+			snip.WriteText(", ")
+		}
+		snip.WritePlaceholder(func(b *snippet.Builder) {
+			b.WriteText(errVar)
+		})
+		label = fmt.Sprintf("%[1]s != nil { return %[1]s }", errVar)
 	}
 
-	snip.WritePlaceholder(func(b *snippet.Builder) {
-		b.WriteText(errText)
-	})
-
 	snip.WriteText("\n}")
 
-	label := fmt.Sprintf("%[1]s != nil { return %[1]s }", errText)
 	if needsIf {
 		label = "if " + label
 	}
@@ -303,3 +320,41 @@ func (c *completer) addErrCheckAndReturn() {
 		snippet: &snip,
 	})
 }
+
+// getTestVar checks the function signature's input parameters and returns
+// the name of the first parameter that implements "testing.TB". For example,
+// func someFunc(t *testing.T) returns the string "t", func someFunc(b *testing.B)
+// returns "b" etc. An empty string indicates that the function signature
+// does not take a testing.TB parameter or does so but is ignored such
+// as func someFunc(*testing.T).
+func getTestVar(enclosingFunc *funcInfo, pkg source.Package) string {
+	if enclosingFunc == nil || enclosingFunc.sig == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+
+	sig := enclosingFunc.sig
+	for i := 0; i < sig.Params().Len(); i++ {
+		param := sig.Params().At(i)
+		if param.Name() == "_" {
+			continue
+		}
+		testingPkg, err := pkg.GetImport("testing")
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		tbObj := testingPkg.GetTypes().Scope().Lookup("TB")
+		if tbObj == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		iface, ok := tbObj.Type().Underlying().(*types.Interface)
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		if !types.Implements(param.Type(), iface) {
+			continue
+		}
+		return param.Name()
+	}
+
+	return ""
+}
diff --git a/internal/lsp/testdata/statements/if_err_check_test.go b/internal/lsp/testdata/statements/if_err_check_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6de5878798
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lsp/testdata/statements/if_err_check_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package statements
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestErr(t *testing.T) {
+	/* if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } */ //@item(stmtOneIfErrTFatal, "if err != nil { t.Fatal(err) }", "", "")
+
+	_, err := os.Open("foo")
+	//@snippet("", stmtOneIfErrTFatal, "", "if err != nil {\n\tt.Fatal(err)\n\\}")
+}
+
+func BenchmarkErr(b *testing.B) {
+	/* if err != nil { b.Fatal(err) } */ //@item(stmtOneIfErrBFatal, "if err != nil { b.Fatal(err) }", "", "")
+
+	_, err := os.Open("foo")
+	//@snippet("", stmtOneIfErrBFatal, "", "if err != nil {\n\tb.Fatal(err)\n\\}")
+}
diff --git a/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden b/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden
index e0b6366efd..8151426bda 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden
+++ b/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 CallHierarchyCount = 2
 CodeLensCount = 5
 CompletionsCount = 258
-CompletionSnippetCount = 92
+CompletionSnippetCount = 94
 UnimportedCompletionsCount = 5
 DeepCompletionsCount = 5
 FuzzyCompletionsCount = 8