diff --git a/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild b/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild
index 39771f8d9f976..01ac4aeab1190 100644
--- a/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/requests-toolbelt/requests-toolbelt-0.7.1.ebuild
@@ -13,10 +13,19 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
+IUSE="test"
 
 RDEPEND="<dev-python/requests-3.0.0"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/betamax[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
 
 DOCS=( AUTHORS.rst HISTORY.rst README.rst )
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test -v || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}