diff --git a/mayan/apps/documents/tests/__init__.py b/mayan/apps/documents/tests/__init__.py
index 68da177dbd..57c2836216 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/documents/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/documents/tests/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-from .base import GenericDocumentViewTestCase  # NOQA
+from .base import GenericDocumentTestCase, GenericDocumentViewTestCase  # NOQA
 from .literals import *  # NOQA
diff --git a/mayan/apps/documents/tests/base.py b/mayan/apps/documents/tests/base.py
index 99c8e1ebb5..4f9eecc7b7 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/documents/tests/base.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/documents/tests/base.py
@@ -2,77 +2,20 @@
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import os
-
-from django.conf import settings
 from django.test import override_settings
 
 from common.tests import BaseTestCase, GenericViewTestCase
 
-from ..models import DocumentType
-
-from .literals import (
-    TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL, TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_FILENAME,
-    TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH,
-)
+from .mixins import DocumentTestMixin
 
 
+@override_settings(DOCUMENT_PARSING_AUTO_PARSING=False)
 @override_settings(OCR_AUTO_OCR=False)
-class GenericDocumentTestCase(BaseTestCase):
-    auto_create_document_type = True
-    auto_upload_document = True
-    test_document_filename = TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_FILENAME
-
-    def create_document_type(self):
-        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(
-            label=TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
-        )
-
-    def upload_document(self):
-        with open(self.test_document_path) as file_object:
-            document = self.document_type.new_document(
-                file_object=file_object, label=self.test_document_filename
-            )
-        return document
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        super(GenericDocumentTestCase, self).setUp()
-        self.test_document_path = os.path.join(
-            settings.BASE_DIR, 'apps', 'documents', 'tests', 'contrib',
-            'sample_documents', self.test_document_filename
-        )
-
-        if self.auto_create_document_type:
-            self.create_document_type()
-
-            if self.auto_upload_document:
-                self.document = self.upload_document()
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        self.document_type.delete()
-        super(GenericDocumentTestCase, self).tearDown()
+class GenericDocumentTestCase(DocumentTestMixin, BaseTestCase):
+    """Base test case when testing models or classes"""
 
 
+@override_settings(DOCUMENT_PARSING_AUTO_PARSING=False)
 @override_settings(OCR_AUTO_OCR=False)
-class GenericDocumentViewTestCase(GenericViewTestCase):
-    test_document_filename = TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_FILENAME
-    test_document_path = TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH
-
-    def upload_document(self):
-        with open(self.test_document_path) as file_object:
-            document = self.document_type.new_document(
-                file_object=file_object, label=self.test_document_filename
-            )
-        return document
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        super(GenericDocumentViewTestCase, self).setUp()
-        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(
-            label=TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
-        )
-        self.document = self.upload_document()
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        if self.document_type.pk:
-            self.document_type.delete()
-        super(GenericDocumentViewTestCase, self).tearDown()
+class GenericDocumentViewTestCase(DocumentTestMixin, GenericViewTestCase):
+    """Base test case when testing views"""
diff --git a/mayan/apps/documents/tests/mixins.py b/mayan/apps/documents/tests/mixins.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..13e51c08c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mayan/apps/documents/tests/mixins.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import os
+
+from django.conf import settings
+
+from ..models import DocumentType
+
+from .literals import TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL, TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_FILENAME
+
+
+class DocumentTestMixin(object):
+    auto_create_document_type = True
+    auto_upload_document = True
+    test_document_filename = TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_FILENAME
+
+    def create_document_type(self):
+        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(
+            label=TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
+        )
+
+    def upload_document(self):
+        with open(self.test_document_path) as file_object:
+            document = self.document_type.new_document(
+                file_object=file_object, label=self.test_document_filename
+            )
+        return document
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(DocumentTestMixin, self).setUp()
+        self.test_document_path = os.path.join(
+            settings.BASE_DIR, 'apps', 'documents', 'tests', 'contrib',
+            'sample_documents', self.test_document_filename
+        )
+
+        if self.auto_create_document_type:
+            self.create_document_type()
+
+            if self.auto_upload_document:
+                self.document = self.upload_document()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        for document_type in DocumentType.objects.all():
+            document_type.delete()
+        super(DocumentTestMixin, self).tearDown()