diff --git a/frontera/contrib/backends/remote/messagebus.py b/frontera/contrib/backends/remote/messagebus.py
index 5c9c8d692..4b5144994 100644
--- a/frontera/contrib/backends/remote/messagebus.py
+++ b/frontera/contrib/backends/remote/messagebus.py
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ def __init__(self, manager):
         self._logger.info("Consuming from partition id %d", self.partition_id)
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_manager(clas, manager):
-        return clas(manager)
+    def from_manager(cls, manager):
+        return cls(manager)
 
     def frontier_start(self):
         pass
diff --git a/tests/mocks/message_bus.py b/tests/mocks/message_bus.py
index b266adba5..9b7897e73 100644
--- a/tests/mocks/message_bus.py
+++ b/tests/mocks/message_bus.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ class Consumer(BaseStreamConsumer):
 
     def __init__(self):
         self.messages = []
+        self.offset = None
 
     def put_messages(self, messages=[]):
         self.messages += messages
@@ -19,8 +20,11 @@ def get_messages(self, timeout=0, count=1):
                 break
         return lst
 
+    def _set_offset(self, offset):
+        self.offset = offset
+
     def get_offset(self):
-        pass
+        return self.offset
 
 
 class Producer(object):
diff --git a/tests/test_message_bus_backend.py b/tests/test_message_bus_backend.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d4753c52e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_message_bus_backend.py
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+import unittest
+
+from frontera.contrib.backends.remote.messagebus import MessageBusBackend
+from frontera.settings import Settings
+from frontera.core.models import Request, Response
+
+
+r1 = Request('http://www.example.com/', meta={b'domain': {b'fingerprint': b'1'}})
+r2 = Request('http://www.scrapy.org/', meta={b'domain': {b'fingerprint': b'2'}})
+r3 = Request('http://www.test.com/some/page', meta={b'domain': {b'fingerprint': b'3'}})
+
+
+class TestMessageBusBackend(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def mbb_setup(self, settings=None):
+        manager = type('manager', (object,), {})
+        settings = settings or Settings()
+        settings.MESSAGE_BUS = 'tests.mocks.message_bus.FakeMessageBus'
+        settings.STORE_CONTENT = True
+        manager.settings = settings
+        manager.request_model = Request
+        manager.response_model = Response
+        return MessageBusBackend(manager)
+
+    def test_feed_partitions_less_than_equal_partion_id_and_partion_id_less_than_zero(self):
+        settings = Settings()
+        # test partition_id > feed_partitions
+        settings.SPIDER_PARTITION_ID = 2
+        settings.SPIDER_FEED_PARTITIONS = 1
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.mbb_setup, settings)
+
+        # test partition_id = feed_partitions
+        settings.SPIDER_PARTITION_ID = 1
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.mbb_setup, settings)
+
+        # test partition_id < 0
+        settings.SPIDER_PARTITION_ID = -1
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.mbb_setup, settings)
+
+    def test_add_seeds(self):
+        mbb = self.mbb_setup()
+        mbb.add_seeds([r1, r2, r3])
+        seeds = [mbb._decoder.decode(m)[1][0] for m in mbb.spider_log_producer.messages]
+        self.assertEqual(set([seed.url for seed in seeds]), set([r1.url, r2.url, r3.url]))
+
+    def test_page_crawled(self):
+        mbb = self.mbb_setup()
+        resp = Response(r1.url, body='body', request=r1)
+        mbb.page_crawled(resp)
+        page = mbb._decoder.decode(mbb.spider_log_producer.messages[0])[1]
+        self.assertEqual((page.request.url, page.body), (resp.request.url, b'body'))
+
+    def test_links_extracted(self):
+        mbb = self.mbb_setup()
+        mbb.links_extracted(r1, [r2, r3])
+        requests = [mbb._decoder.decode(m)[1] for m in mbb.spider_log_producer.messages]
+        links = [mbb._decoder.decode(m)[2][0] for m in mbb.spider_log_producer.messages]
+        self.assertEqual(set([r.url for r in requests]), set([r1.url]))
+        self.assertEqual(set([link.url for link in links]), set([r2.url, r3.url]))
+
+    def test_request_error(self):
+        mbb = self.mbb_setup()
+        mbb.request_error(r1, 'error')
+        _, error_request, error_message = mbb._decoder.decode(mbb.spider_log_producer.messages[0])
+        self.assertEqual((error_request.url, error_message), (r1.url, 'error'))
+
+    def test_get_next_requests(self):
+        mbb = self.mbb_setup()
+        encoded_requests = [mbb._encoder.encode_request(r) for r in [r1, r2, r3]]
+        mbb.consumer.put_messages(encoded_requests)
+        mbb.consumer._set_offset(0)
+        requests = set(mbb.get_next_requests(10, overused_keys=[], key_type='domain'))
+        _, partition_id, offset = mbb._decoder.decode(mbb.spider_log_producer.messages[0])
+        self.assertEqual((partition_id, offset), (0, 0))
+        self.assertEqual(set([r.url for r in requests]), set([r1.url, r2.url, r3.url]))
+        requests = set(mbb.get_next_requests(10, overused_keys=[], key_type='domain'))
+        self.assertEqual([r.url for r in requests], [])
+        # test overused keys
+        mbb.consumer.put_messages(encoded_requests)
+        requests = set(mbb.get_next_requests(10, overused_keys=['www.example.com'], key_type='domain'))
+        self.assertEqual(set([r.url for r in requests]), set([r2.url, r3.url]))