diff --git a/tests/test_pipelines.py b/tests/test_pipelines.py
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+from twisted.internet import defer
+from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred
+from twisted.trial import unittest
+
+from scrapy import Spider, signals, Request
+from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler
+
+from tests.mockserver import MockServer
+
+
+class SimplePipeline:
+    def process_item(self, item, spider):
+        item['pipeline_passed'] = True
+        return item
+
+
+class DeferredPipeline:
+    def cb(self, item):
+        item['pipeline_passed'] = True
+        return item
+
+    def process_item(self, item, spider):
+        d = Deferred()
+        d.addCallback(self.cb)
+        d.callback(item)
+        return d
+
+
+class ItemSpider(Spider):
+    name = 'itemspider'
+
+    def start_requests(self):
+        yield Request(self.mockserver.url('/status?n=200'))
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        return {'field': 42}
+
+
+class PipelineTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.mockserver = MockServer()
+        self.mockserver.__enter__()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.mockserver.__exit__(None, None, None)
+
+    def _on_item_scraped(self, item):
+        self.assertIsInstance(item, dict)
+        self.assertTrue(item.get('pipeline_passed'))
+        self.items.append(item)
+
+    def _create_crawler(self, pipeline_class):
+        settings = {
+            'ITEM_PIPELINES': {__name__ + '.' + pipeline_class.__name__: 1},
+        }
+        crawler = get_crawler(ItemSpider, settings)
+        crawler.signals.connect(self._on_item_scraped, signals.item_scraped)
+        self.items = []
+        return crawler
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_simple_pipeline(self):
+        crawler = self._create_crawler(SimplePipeline)
+        yield crawler.crawl(mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        self.assertEqual(len(self.items), 1)
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_deferred_pipeline(self):
+        crawler = self._create_crawler(DeferredPipeline)
+        yield crawler.crawl(mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        self.assertEqual(len(self.items), 1)