diff --git a/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py b/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
index 5eaee3d11..18014e290 100644
--- a/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ class ContractsManager(object):
         requests = []
         for method in self.tested_methods_from_spidercls(type(spider)):
             bound_method = spider.__getattribute__(method)
-            requests.append(self.from_method(bound_method, results))
+            try:
+                requests.append(self.from_method(bound_method, results))
+            except:
+                case = _create_testcase(bound_method, 'contract')
+                results.addError(case, sys.exc_info())
 
         return requests