diff --git a/jass/test/test_init_table.py b/jass/test/test_init_table.py
index bb400510c1f734cb3e78c1f9846f695a62fe7e1f..c2be0c5ee9f9b0ec0a6d3a0279ee228832d6603d 100644
--- a/jass/test/test_init_table.py
+++ b/jass/test/test_init_table.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import os, shutil, tempfile
 from pandas.testing import assert_frame_equal
 from pandas import read_hdf
 
-from jass.models.inittable import create_inittable_file
+from jass.models.inittable import create_inittable_file,get_inittable_meta
 
 from . import JassTestCase
 
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ class TestInitTable(object):
         """
         assert_frame_equal(self.expected_cov, self.result_cov, check_like=True)
 
+    def test_get_inittable_meta(self):
+        m_data=get_inittable_meta(self.get_file_path_fn("initTable.hdf5"))
+        self.assertEqual(m_data['nb_snps'],737)
+        self.assertEqual(m_data['nb_phenotypes'],4)
+        self.assertEqual(m_data['assembly'],'hg99')
+        self.assertEqual(m_data['name'],'Small subset of Curated GWAS data')
+        #print(m_data)
 
 class TestInitTableNoNans(TestInitTable, JassTestCase):
     computed_cov = True