diff --git a/.github/workflows/c-cpp.yml b/.github/workflows/c-cpp.yml
index 0a23bdb49..78edc3ffd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/c-cpp.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/c-cpp.yml
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ jobs:
               sudo apt-get update -qq
               sudo apt-get install -y googletest asciidoc source-highlight doxygen graphviz
 
-        - name: Run CMake
-          run: |
-            cmake -Bbuild \
-            -DBOOST_ROOT=/home/runner/boost/boost/ -DGTEST_ROOT=/usr/src/googletest/googletest/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${{ runner.workspace }}/install .
-            cmake --build build -t all build_tests doc install
+        - name: Run CMake config
+          run: cmake -Bbuild -DBOOST_ROOT=/home/runner/boost/boost/ -DGTEST_ROOT=/usr/src/googletest/googletest/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${{ runner.workspace }}/install .
+
+        - name: Build CMake
+          run: cmake --build build -t all build_tests doc install
 
         - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
           with:
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
     - name: Run CMake
-      run: |
-          cmake -Bbuild -D BOOST_ROOT=C:\runner\boost/boost\ .
-          cmake --build build
+      run: cmake -Bbuild -D BOOST_ROOT=C:\runner\boost/boost\ .
+
+    - name: Build CMake 
+      run: cmake --build build
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ab399a69e..82ab4b3f7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@ if (NOT GTEST_ROOT)
     if (DEFINED ENV{GTEST_ROOT})
         set(GTEST_ROOT $ENV{GTEST_ROOT})
     else()
-        include(FetchContent)
-        FetchContent_Declare(googletest GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/google/googletest.git GIT_TAG v1.14.0) 
-        FetchContent_Populate(googletest)
-        set(GTEST_ROOT ${googletest_SOURCE_DIR})
+        set(GTEST_ROOT "n/a" CACHE STRING "Path to root folder of googletest. Must be set for building the tests.")
     endif()
 endif()
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3fc4c8d77..70be2290d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ Optional:
 - A C++14 enabled compiler is needed (default for gcc >= v6.1).
 - vsomeip uses CMake as buildsystem.
 - vsomeip uses Boost >= 1.55.0:
-- Google's test framework (downloaded automaticaly)
+
+For the tests Google's test framework https://code.google.com/p/googletest/[gtest] is needed.
+-- URL: https://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-<version>.zip
 
 To build the documentation asciidoc, source-highlight, doxygen and graphviz is needed:
 --`sudo apt-get install asciidoc source-highlight doxygen graphviz`