diff --git a/evennia/server/tests.py b/evennia/server/tests.py
index 7b39a2d7fd..e821d58583 100644
--- a/evennia/server/tests.py
+++ b/evennia/server/tests.py
@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ Guidelines:
  used as test methods by the runner. Inside the test methods, special member
  methods assert*() are used to test the behaviour.
 """
-
-import os
-import sys
-import glob
-
 try:
     from django.utils.unittest import TestCase
 except ImportError:
@@ -31,6 +26,8 @@ except ImportError:
 
 from django.test.runner import DiscoverRunner
 
+from .deprecations import check_errors
+
 
 class EvenniaTestSuiteRunner(DiscoverRunner):
     """
@@ -46,3 +43,37 @@ class EvenniaTestSuiteRunner(DiscoverRunner):
         import evennia
         evennia._init()
         return super(EvenniaTestSuiteRunner, self).build_suite(test_labels, extra_tests=extra_tests, **kwargs)
+
+
+class MockSettings(object):
+    """
+    Class for simulating django.conf.settings. Created with a single value, and then sets the required
+    WEBSERVER_ENABLED setting to True or False depending if we're testing WEBSERVER_PORTS.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, setting, value=None):
+        setattr(self, setting, value)
+        if setting == "WEBSERVER_PORTS":
+            self.WEBSERVER_ENABLED = True
+        else:
+            self.WEBSERVER_ENABLED = False
+
+
+class TestDeprecations(TestCase):
+    """
+    Class for testing deprecations.check_errors.
+    """
+    deprecated_settings = ("CMDSET_DEFAULT", "CMDSET_OOC", "BASE_COMM_TYPECLASS", "COMM_TYPECLASS_PATHS",
+                           "CHARACTER_DEFAULT_HOME", "OBJECT_TYPECLASS_PATHS", "SCRIPT_TYPECLASS_PATHS",
+                           "ACCOUNT_TYPECLASS_PATHS", "CHANNEL_TYPECLASS_PATHS", "SEARCH_MULTIMATCH_SEPARATOR",
+                           "TIME_SEC_PER_MIN", "TIME_MIN_PER_HOUR", "TIME_HOUR_PER_DAY", "TIME_DAY_PER_WEEK",
+                           "TIME_WEEK_PER_MONTH", "TIME_MONTH_PER_YEAR")
+
+    def test_check_errors(self):
+        """
+        All settings in deprecated_settings should raise a DeprecationWarning if they exist. WEBSERVER_PORTS
+        raises an error if the iterable value passed does not have a tuple as its first element.
+        """
+        for setting in self.deprecated_settings:
+            self.assertRaises(DeprecationWarning, check_errors, MockSettings(setting))
+        # test check for WEBSERVER_PORTS having correct value
+        self.assertRaises(DeprecationWarning, check_errors, MockSettings("WEBSERVER_PORTS", value=["not a tuple"]))