diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_load_spiders.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_load_spiders.py
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+from unittest import TestCase, main
+from scrapy.spider import spiders
+
+class ScrapySpidersTest(TestCase):
+    def test_load_spiders(self):
+        """ Simple test that forces to load the spiders
+        checks for syntax errors that block the whole framework
+        """
+        spiders.asdict()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+