diff --git a/test/basic.js b/test/basic.js
index add579cb..61f36673 100644
--- a/test/basic.js
+++ b/test/basic.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* global module, asyncTest, $, ok, equal, notEqual, start, test, Util */
+/* global module, asyncTest, $, ok, equal, notEqual, start, test, Util, testLog */
 
 (function() {
     var viewer;
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
         setup: function () {
             var example = $('<div id="example"></div>').appendTo("#qunit-fixture");
 
+            testLog.reset();
+
             viewer = OpenSeadragon({
                 id:            'example',
                 prefixUrl:     '/build/openseadragon/images/',
@@ -54,6 +56,9 @@
 
             equal($(".openseadragon-message").length, 1, "Open failures should display a message");
 
+            ok(testLog.log.contains('["AJAX request returned %s: %s",404,"/test/data/not-a-real-file"]'),
+               "AJAX failures should be logged to the console");
+
             start();
         });