diff --git a/examples/with-ava/test/index.test.js b/examples/with-ava/test/index.test.js
index 75272b589d..c19d0a692c 100755
--- a/examples/with-ava/test/index.test.js
+++ b/examples/with-ava/test/index.test.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 ** Test with Ava can be written in ES6 \o/
 */
 import test from 'ava'
-import jsdom from 'jsdom'
 import { createServer } from 'http'
 import { resolve } from 'path'
 
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ test('Route / exits and render HTML', async t => {
 ** Example of testing via dom checking
 */
 test('Route / exits and render HTML', async t => {
-  const window = await nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(jsdom, 'http://localhost:4000/')
+  const window = await nuxt.renderAndGetWindow('http://localhost:4000/')
   const element = window.document.querySelector('.red-color')
   t.not(element, null)
   t.is(element.textContent, 'Hello world!')
diff --git a/lib/render.js b/lib/render.js
index c6850d6d81..dcf01739ef 100644
--- a/lib/render.js
+++ b/lib/render.js
@@ -94,7 +94,18 @@ exports.renderRoute = function (url, context = {}) {
 }
 
 // Function used to do dom checking via jsdom
-exports.renderAndGetWindow = function renderAndGetWindow (jsdom, url) {
+let jsdom = null
+exports.renderAndGetWindow = function renderAndGetWindow (url) {
+  if (!jsdom) {
+    try {
+      jsdom = require('jsdom')
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error('Fail when calling nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(url)') // eslint-disable-line no-console
+      console.error('jsdom module is not installed') // eslint-disable-line no-console
+      console.error('Please install jsdom with: npm install --save-dev jsdom') // eslint-disable-line no-console
+      process.exit(1)
+    }
+  }
   const virtualConsole = jsdom.createVirtualConsole().sendTo(console)
   url = url || 'http://localhost:3000'
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
diff --git a/test/basic.test.js b/test/basic.test.js
index 184cedad2c..8af209908e 100755
--- a/test/basic.test.js
+++ b/test/basic.test.js
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import test from 'ava'
-import jsdom from 'jsdom'
 import { resolve } from 'path'
 const port = 4002
 const url = (route) => 'http://localhost:' + port + route
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ test('/stateless', async t => {
 ** Example of testing via dom checking
 */
 test('/css', async t => {
-  const window = await nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(jsdom, url('/css'))
+  const window = await nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(url('/css'))
   const element = window.document.querySelector('.red')
   t.not(element, null)
   t.is(element.textContent, 'This is red')
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ test('/stateful', async t => {
 })
 
 test('/head', async t => {
-  const window = await nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(jsdom, url('/head'))
+  const window = await nuxt.renderAndGetWindow(url('/head'))
   const html = window.document.body.innerHTML
   const metas = window.document.getElementsByTagName('meta')
   t.is(window.document.title, 'My title')