diff --git a/docs/howto.md b/docs/howto.md
index ff939d8b..c4a13c43 100644
--- a/docs/howto.md
+++ b/docs/howto.md
@@ -37,6 +37,50 @@ on Python 3.11:
 
     nox -s test-3.11 -- -k simple_search
 
+## Doctests
+
+[Doctests](https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html) are automatically
+enabled for all docstrings in the `tantivy` module. Here is a very basic
+introduction.  Consider the following hypothetical Rust `struct`:
+
+```rust
+/// Tantivy's Document is the object that can be indexed and then searched for.
+///
+/// Documents are fundamentally a collection of unordered tuples
+/// (field_name, value). In this list, one field may appear more than once.
+///
+/// Example:
+///     >>> doc = tantivy.Document()
+///     >>> doc.add_text("title", "The Old Man and the Sea")
+///     >>> doc.add_text("body", ("He was an old man who fished alone in a "
+///     ...                       "skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone "
+///     ...                       "eighty-four days now without taking a fish."))
+///     >>> doc
+///     Document(body=[He was an ],title=[The Old Ma])
+///
+#[pyclass(module = "tantivy")]
+#[derive(Clone, Default, PartialEq)]
+pub(crate) struct Document {
+    pub(crate) field_values: BTreeMap<String, Vec<Value>>,
+}
+```
+
+When the tests are executed, pytest will automatically search all the docstrings
+for `>>>` and `...` and execute the code in the docstring. The output of the
+code is compared to the text that follows the code. If the output matches, the
+test passes. If the output does not match, the test fails.
+
+In the above example, a Tantivy document object is created, and then the
+representation of the document is printed. This representation, and indeed any
+output that manual typing would produce, is compared to the text that follows
+and this is how doctests work.
+
+Doctests are a great way to ensure that the documentation is accurate and up to
+date, and doctests are therefore encouraged be present on every public 
+interface that users will interact with. However, doctest are not suitable 
+for coverage testing and other more advanced testing methods so you must
+judge when to use them.
+
 ## Working on tantivy-py documentation
 
 Please be aware that this documentation is structured using the [Diátaxis](https://diataxis.fr/) framework. In very simple terms, this framework will suggest the correct location for different kinds of documentation. Please make sure you gain a basic understanding of the goals of the framework before making large pull requests with new documentation.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d4431985..9383f3e0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,3 +13,15 @@ dev = [
 
 [tool.maturin]
 bindings = "pyo3"
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+# Set the durations option and doctest modules
+# See https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#durations
+addopts = "--doctest-modules --durations=10"
+# Use the `--ignore-glob` setting to exclude the `noxfile.py` module from the doctests
+# See https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/reference.html#confval-ignore_glob
+testpaths = [
+    "tests",
+    "tantivy",
+    "src",
+]
diff --git a/src/document.rs b/src/document.rs
index f4e2cb7d..ae640d00 100644
--- a/src/document.rs
+++ b/src/document.rs
@@ -428,8 +428,10 @@ impl<'a> From<&'a Value> for BorrowedSerdeValue<'a> {
 ///     >>> doc = tantivy.Document()
 ///     >>> doc.add_text("title", "The Old Man and the Sea")
 ///     >>> doc.add_text("body", ("He was an old man who fished alone in a "
-///                             "skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone "
-///                             "eighty-four days now without taking a fish."))
+///     ...                       "skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone "
+///     ...                       "eighty-four days now without taking a fish."))
+///     >>> doc
+///     Document(body=[He was an ],title=[The Old Ma])
 ///
 /// For simplicity, it is also possible to build a `Document` by passing the field
 /// values directly as constructor arguments.
@@ -451,16 +453,16 @@ impl<'a> From<&'a Value> for BorrowedSerdeValue<'a> {
 ///
 /// Example:
 ///     >>> schema = (
-///             SchemaBuilder()
-///                 .add_unsigned_field("unsigned")
-///                 .add_integer_field("signed")
-///                 .add_float_field("float")
-///                 .build()
-///         )
+///     ...     SchemaBuilder()
+///     ...         .add_unsigned_field("unsigned")
+///     ...         .add_integer_field("signed")
+///     ...         .add_float_field("float")
+///     ...         .build()
+///     ... )
 ///     >>> doc = tantivy.Document.from_dict(
-///             {"unsigned": 1000, "signed": -5, "float": 0.4},
-///             schema,
-///         )
+///     ...     {"unsigned": 1000, "signed": -5, "float": 0.4},
+///     ...     schema,
+///     ... )
 #[pyclass(module = "tantivy")]
 #[derive(Clone, Default, PartialEq)]
 pub(crate) struct Document {