diff --git a/tests/hghave.py b/tests/hghave.py
--- a/tests/hghave.py
+++ b/tests/hghave.py
@@ -610,3 +610,12 @@ def has_hypothesis():
 @check("unziplinks", "unzip(1) understands and extracts symlinks")
 def unzip_understands_symlinks():
     return matchoutput('unzip --help', br'Info-ZIP')
+
+@check("zstd", "zstd Python module available")
+def has_zstd():
+    try:
+        import mercurial.zstd
+        mercurial.zstd.__version__
+        return True
+    except ImportError:
+        return False