diff --git a/tests/test_crawl.py b/tests/test_crawl.py
index 84bac9b50..7bda3bef2 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawl.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawl.py
@@ -274,6 +274,28 @@ with multiples lines
         self.assertEqual(s['engine.spider.name'], crawler.spider.name)
         self.assertEqual(s['len(engine.scraper.slot.active)'], 1)
 
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_format_engine_status(self):
+        from scrapy.utils.engine import format_engine_status
+        est = []
+
+        def cb(response):
+            est.append(format_engine_status(crawler.engine))
+
+        crawler = self.runner.create_crawler(SingleRequestSpider)
+        yield crawler.crawl(seed=self.mockserver.url('/'), callback_func=cb, mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        self.assertEqual(len(est), 1, est)
+        est = est[0].split("\n")[2:-2]  # remove header & footer
+        # convert to dict
+        est = [x.split(":") for x in est]
+        est = [x for sublist in est for x in sublist]  # flatten
+        est = [x.lstrip().rstrip() for x in est]
+        it = iter(est)
+        s = dict(zip(it, it))
+
+        self.assertEqual(s['engine.spider.name'], crawler.spider.name)
+        self.assertEqual(s['len(engine.scraper.slot.active)'], '1')
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_graceful_crawl_error_handling(self):
         """