diff --git a/test/functional/rpc_help.py b/test/functional/rpc_help.py
new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/rpc_help.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+"""Test RPC help output."""
+
+from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework, is_zmq_enabled
+from test_framework.util import assert_equal, assert_raises_rpc_error
+
+
+class HelpRpcTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
+    def set_test_params(self):
+        self.num_nodes = 1
+
+    def run_test(self):
+        node = self.nodes[0]
+
+        # wrong argument count
+        assert_raises_rpc_error(-1, 'help', node.help, 'foo', 'bar')
+
+        # invalid argument
+        assert_raises_rpc_error(-1,
+                                'JSON value is not a string as expected', node.help, 0)
+
+        # help of unknown command
+        assert_equal(node.help('foo'), 'help: unknown command: foo')
+
+        # command titles
+        titles = [line[3:-3]
+                  for line in node.help().splitlines() if line.startswith('==')]
+        components = ['Blockchain', 'Control', 'Generating',
+                      'Mining', 'Network', 'Rawtransactions', 'Util', 'Wallet']
+
+        if is_zmq_enabled(self):
+            components.append('Zmq')
+
+        assert_equal(titles, components)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    HelpRpcTest().main()
diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py b/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py
@@ -505,8 +505,13 @@
 
 def skip_if_no_bitcoind_zmq(test_instance):
     """Skip the running test if bitcoind has not been compiled with zmq support."""
+    if not is_zmq_enabled(test_instance):
+        raise SkipTest("bitcoind has not been built with zmq enabled.")
+
+
+def is_zmq_enabled(test_instance):
+    """Checks whether zmq is enabled or not."""
     config = configparser.ConfigParser()
     config.read_file(open(test_instance.options.configfile, encoding='utf-8'))
 
-    if not config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_ZMQ"):
-        raise SkipTest("bitcoind has not been built with zmq enabled.")
+    return config["components"].getboolean("ENABLE_ZMQ")