diff --git a/docs/en/docs/advanced/testing-events.md b/docs/en/docs/advanced/testing-events.md
index 0c554c4ec..d67583de8 100644
--- a/docs/en/docs/advanced/testing-events.md
+++ b/docs/en/docs/advanced/testing-events.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# Testing Events: startup - shutdown
+# Testing Events: lifespan and startup - shutdown
 
-When you need your event handlers (`startup` and `shutdown`) to run in your tests, you can use the `TestClient` with a `with` statement:
+When you need `lifespan` to run in your tests, you can use the `TestClient` with a `with` statement:
+
+
+{* ../../docs_src/app_testing/tutorial004.py hl[9:15,26:30] *}
+
+
+You can read more details about the ["Running lifespan in tests in the official Starlette documentation site."](https://www.starlette.io/lifespan/#running-lifespan-in-tests)
+
+For the deprecated `startup` and `shutdown` events, you can use the `TestClient` as follows:
 
 {* ../../docs_src/app_testing/tutorial003.py hl[9:12,20:24] *}
diff --git a/docs_src/app_testing/tutorial004.py b/docs_src/app_testing/tutorial004.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..076c00313
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs_src/app_testing/tutorial004.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+items = {}
+
+
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
+    items["foo"] = {"name": "Fighters"}
+    items["bar"] = {"name": "Tenders"}
+    yield
+    # clean up items or other work
+    ...
+
+
+app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)
+
+
+@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
+async def read_items(item_id: str):
+    return items[item_id]
+
+
+def test_read_items():
+    with TestClient(app) as client:
+        response = client.get("/items/foo")
+        assert response.status_code == 200
+        assert response.json() == {"name": "Fighters"}
diff --git a/tests/test_tutorial/test_testing/test_tutorial004.py b/tests/test_tutorial/test_testing/test_tutorial004.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..812ee44c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_tutorial/test_testing/test_tutorial004.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from docs_src.app_testing.tutorial004 import test_read_items
+
+
+def test_main():
+    test_read_items()