diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index dd6519ff9361e5..41939be99a43a8 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -956,6 +956,7 @@ in {
   swap-file-btrfs = handleTest ./swap-file-btrfs.nix {};
   swap-partition = handleTest ./swap-partition.nix {};
   swap-random-encryption = handleTest ./swap-random-encryption.nix {};
+  swapspace = handleTest ./swapspace.nix {};
   sway = handleTest ./sway.nix {};
   swayfx = handleTest ./swayfx.nix {};
   switchTest = handleTest ./switch-test.nix { ng = false; };
diff --git a/nixos/tests/swapspace.nix b/nixos/tests/swapspace.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..3327ad23bd29ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/swapspace.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+import ./make-test-python.nix (
+  { pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+  {
+    name = "swapspace";
+
+    meta = with pkgs.lib.maintainers; {
+      maintainers = [
+        Luflosi
+        phanirithvij
+      ];
+    };
+
+    nodes.machine = {
+      virtualisation.memorySize = 256;
+      systemd.oomd.extraConfig.DefaultMemoryPressureDurationSec = "1s";
+
+      services.swapspace = {
+        enable = true;
+        extraArgs = [ "-v" ];
+        settings = {
+          # test outside /var/lib/swapspace
+          swappath = "/root/swamp";
+          cooldown = 1;
+        };
+      };
+
+      # adopted from systemd-oomd test
+      systemd.slices.workload = {
+        description = "Test slice for memory pressure kills";
+        sliceConfig = {
+          MemoryAccounting = true;
+          ManagedOOMMemoryPressure = "kill";
+          ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit = "90%";
+        };
+      };
+
+      systemd.services.testbloat = {
+        description = "Create a lot of memory pressure";
+        serviceConfig = {
+          Slice = "workload.slice";
+          MemoryHigh = "128M";
+          ExecStart = "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/tail /dev/zero";
+        };
+      };
+    };
+
+    testScript = ''
+      machine.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target")
+      machine.wait_for_unit("swapspace.service")
+
+      print(machine.succeed("systemctl status swapspace.service"))
+      print(machine.succeed("swapon --show"))
+
+      swamp = False
+      with subtest("OOMd should kill the bad service"):
+        machine.succeed("systemctl start testbloat.service")
+        # wait for a maximum of 45sec
+        for i in range(1, 11):
+          status = machine.get_unit_info("testbloat.service")["Result"]
+          out = machine.succeed("swapon --show")
+          print(out)
+          swamp = "/swamp" in out
+          if status == "oom-kill":
+            break
+          machine.sleep(i)
+
+      print(machine.succeed("swapspace -e -s /root/swamp"))
+      assert machine.succeed("swapon --show") == ""
+      assert swamp
+    '';
+  }
+)