diff --git a/test/milquetoast/utils_test.clj b/test/milquetoast/utils_test.clj
index e69de29..5a350e0 100644
--- a/test/milquetoast/utils_test.clj
+++ b/test/milquetoast/utils_test.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+(ns milquetoast.utils-test
+  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]
+            [milquetoast.utils :as utils]))
+
+(deftest test-parallelism
+  (testing "parallelism"
+    (is (integer? (utils/parallelism)))))
+
+(deftest test-pipe
+  (testing "pipe"
+    (let [in (chan)
+          out (utils/pipe in (map inc))]
+      (>!! in 1)
+      (is (= 2 (<!! out))))))
+
+(deftest test-json-parse-message
+  (testing "json-parse-message"
+    (let [msg {:payload "{\"key\":\"value\"}"}
+          parsed-msg (utils/json-parse-message msg)]
+      (is (= {:key "value"} (:payload parsed-msg))))))