diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_spider.py b/scrapy/tests/test_spider.py
index 04f8cd0ed..4ab140311 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_spider.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_spider.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from twisted.trial import unittest
 
 from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders.init import InitSpider
-from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, XMLFeedSpider, CSVFeedSpider
+from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, XMLFeedSpider, CSVFeedSpider, SitemapSpider
 
 
 class BaseSpiderTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ class CrawlSpiderTest(BaseSpiderTest):
 
     spider_class = CrawlSpider
 
+class SitemapSpiderTest(BaseSpiderTest):
+
+    spider_class = SitemapSpider
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()