diff --git a/test/Package.hs b/test/Package.hs
index 1d5eebce0a..71496f6a3b 100644
--- a/test/Package.hs
+++ b/test/Package.hs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ where
 
 import Base
 import Package.Negative qualified as N
+import Package.Positive qualified as P
 
 allTests :: TestTree
-allTests = testGroup "Package loading tests" [N.allTests]
+allTests = testGroup "Package loading tests" [N.allTests, P.allTests]
diff --git a/test/Package/Positive.hs b/test/Package/Positive.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4cd7a49d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Package/Positive.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+module Package.Positive where
+
+import Base
+import Juvix.Compiler.Pipeline.Package
+
+type FailMsg = String
+
+data PosTest = PosTest
+  { _name :: String,
+    _relDir :: Path Rel Dir,
+    _checkPackage :: Package -> BuildDir -> Maybe FailMsg
+  }
+
+root :: Path Abs Dir
+root = relToProject $(mkRelDir "tests/positive/PackageLoader")
+
+testDescr :: PosTest -> TestDescr
+testDescr PosTest {..} =
+  let tRoot = root <//> _relDir
+   in TestDescr
+        { _testName = _name,
+          _testRoot = tRoot,
+          _testAssertion = Single $ do
+            withTempDir' $ \d -> do
+              let buildDir = CustomBuildDir (Abs d)
+              res <- runM . runError @JuvixError . runFilesIO . readPackage tRoot $ buildDir
+              case res of
+                Right p -> whenJust (_checkPackage p buildDir) assertFailure
+                Left {} -> assertFailure "An error ocurred when reading the package."
+        }
+
+allTests :: TestTree
+allTests =
+  testGroup
+    "Package loading positive tests"
+    ( map (mkTest . testDescr) packageLoadingTests
+    )
+
+packageLoadingTests :: [PosTest]
+packageLoadingTests =
+  [
+    PosTest
+      "empty YAML is valid"
+      $(mkRelDir "YamlEmpty")
+      $ \p _ -> if
+         | p ^. packageName == defaultPackageName -> Nothing
+         | otherwise -> Just "Package did not have default name",
+    PosTest
+      "no dependencies uses default stdlib"
+      $(mkRelDir "YamlNoDependencies")
+      $ \p b -> case p ^? packageDependencies . _head of
+         Just d -> if
+           | d == defaultStdlibDep b -> Nothing
+           | otherwise -> Just "Package dependency is not the default standard library"
+         _ -> Just "The package has no dependencies",
+    PosTest
+      "empty dependencies does not use default stdlib"
+      $(mkRelDir "YamlEmptyDependencies")
+      $ \p _ -> if
+         | null (p ^. packageDependencies) -> Nothing
+         | otherwise -> Just "Expected dependencies to be empty"
+  ]
diff --git a/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlEmpty/juvix.yaml b/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlEmpty/juvix.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlEmptyDependencies/juvix.yaml b/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlEmptyDependencies/juvix.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6637dfb49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlEmptyDependencies/juvix.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+name: abc
+dependencies: []
diff --git a/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlNoDependencies/juvix.yaml b/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlNoDependencies/juvix.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a1eaae409a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/positive/PackageLoader/YamlNoDependencies/juvix.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+name: abc