diff --git a/pkgs/test/dhall/default.nix b/pkgs/test/dhall/default.nix
index bdb33acf0238..4c7eba6c9579 100644
--- a/pkgs/test/dhall/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/test/dhall/default.nix
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 
 lib.recurseIntoAttrs {
   buildDhallUrl = callPackage ./buildDhallUrl { };
+  generateDhallDirectoryPackage = callPackage ./generateDhallDirectoryPackage { };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/test/dhall/generateDhallDirectoryPackage/default.nix b/pkgs/test/dhall/generateDhallDirectoryPackage/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4771e1629806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/test/dhall/generateDhallDirectoryPackage/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{ dhallPackages, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+# This file tests that dhallPackages.generateDhallDirectoryPackage works.
+#
+# TODO: It would be nice to extend this test to make sure that the resulting
+# Nix file has the expected contents, but it might be tough to do that easily
+# without IFD.
+
+dhallPackages.generateDhallDirectoryPackage {
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "cdepillabout";
+    repo = "example-dhall-nix";
+    rev = "e6a675c72ecd4dd23d254a02aea8181fe875747f";
+    sha256 = "sha256-c/EZq76s/+hmLkaeJWKqgh2KrHuJRYI6kWry0E0YQ6s=";
+  };
+  file = "mydhallfile.dhall";
+}