diff --git a/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/mixins.py b/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/mixins.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..053b1cb0fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/mixins.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from common.tests import BaseTestCase
+
+from ..models import MetadataType, DocumentMetadata
+
+from .literals import (
+    TEST_DEFAULT_VALUE, TEST_LOOKUP_TEMPLATE, TEST_INCORRECT_LOOKUP_VALUE,
+    TEST_CORRECT_LOOKUP_VALUE, TEST_DATE_VALIDATOR, TEST_DATE_PARSER,
+    TEST_METADATA_TYPE_NAME, TEST_METADATA_TYPE_LABEL, TEST_INVALID_DATE,
+    TEST_VALID_DATE, TEST_PARSED_VALID_DATE
+)
+
+
+class MetadataTypeMixin(object):
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(MetadataTypeMixin, self).setUp()
+        self.metadata_type = MetadataType.objects.create(
+            name=TEST_METADATA_TYPE_NAME, label=TEST_METADATA_TYPE_LABEL
+        )
diff --git a/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/test_models.py b/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/test_models.py
index 7f538442ff..de722a006d 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/metadata/tests/test_models.py
@@ -19,20 +19,17 @@ from .literals import (
     TEST_METADATA_TYPE_NAME, TEST_METADATA_TYPE_LABEL, TEST_INVALID_DATE,
     TEST_VALID_DATE, TEST_PARSED_VALID_DATE
 )
+from .mixins import MetadataTypeMixin
 
 
 @override_settings(OCR_AUTO_OCR=False)
-class MetadataTestCase(BaseTestCase):
+class MetadataTestCase(MetadataTypeMixin, BaseTestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         super(MetadataTestCase, self).setUp()
         self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(
             label=TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
         )
 
-        self.metadata_type = MetadataType.objects.create(
-            name=TEST_METADATA_TYPE_NAME, label=TEST_METADATA_TYPE_LABEL
-        )
-
         self.document_type.metadata.create(metadata_type=self.metadata_type)
 
         with open(TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH) as file_object: