diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 88126d430..adbf6b8e1 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -885,6 +885,16 @@ describe('standard-version', function () {
   })
 
   describe('skip', () => {
+    it('can skip changelog generation when a changelog file is not present', function () {
+      writePackageJson('1.0.0')
+
+      commit('feat: first commit')
+      return execCliAsync('--skip.changelog true')
+        .then(function () {
+          getPackageVersion().should.equal('1.1.0')
+        })
+    })
+
     it('allows bump and changelog generation to be skipped', function () {
       let changelogContent = 'legacy header format<a name="1.0.0">\n'
       writePackageJson('1.0.0')