diff --git a/doc/testament.rst b/doc/testament.rst
index d515ac2cb525a..1b2b71c18b58a 100644
--- a/doc/testament.rst
+++ b/doc/testament.rst
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ Example "template" **to edit** and write a Testament unittest:
     target: "c js"    # Targets to run the test into (C, C++, JavaScript, etc).
 
     disabled: "bsd"   # Disable the test by condition, here BSD is disabled just as an example.
+    disabled: "win"   # Can disable multiple OSes at once
+    disabled: "32bit" # ...or architectures
+    disabled: "i386"
+    disabled: "azure" # ...or pipeline runners
+    disabled: true    # ...or can disable the test entirely
 
   """
   assert true
diff --git a/testament/specs.nim b/testament/specs.nim
index e0b9cbeec707d..eaae598bbcc69 100644
--- a/testament/specs.nim
+++ b/testament/specs.nim
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ type
     reFilesDiffer,      # expected and given filenames differ
     reLinesDiffer,      # expected and given line numbers differ
     reOutputsDiffer,
-    reExitcodesDiffer,
+    reExitcodesDiffer,  # exit codes of program or of valgrind differ
     reTimeout,
     reInvalidPeg,
     reCodegenFailure,
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ type
     msg*: string
     line*, col*: int
 
+  ValgrindSpec* = enum
+    disabled, enabled, leaking
+  
   TSpec* = object
     action*: TTestAction
     file*, cmd*: string
@@ -92,7 +95,7 @@ type
       # whether this test can be batchable via `NIM_TESTAMENT_BATCH`; only very
       # few tests are not batchable; the ones that are not could be turned batchable
       # by making the dependencies explicit
-    useValgrind*: bool
+    useValgrind*: ValgrindSpec
     timeout*: float # in seconds, fractions possible,
                     # but don't rely on much precision
     inlineErrors*: seq[InlineError] # line information to error message
@@ -306,14 +309,15 @@ proc parseSpec*(filename: string): TSpec =
         result.unjoinable = not parseCfgBool(e.value)
       of "valgrind":
         when defined(linux) and sizeof(int) == 8:
-          result.useValgrind = parseCfgBool(e.value)
+          result.useValgrind = if e.value.normalize == "leaks": leaking
+                               else: ValgrindSpec(parseCfgBool(e.value))
           result.unjoinable = true
-          if result.useValgrind:
+          if result.useValgrind != disabled:
             result.outputCheck = ocSubstr
         else:
           # Windows lacks valgrind. Silly OS.
           # Valgrind only supports OSX <= 17.x
-          result.useValgrind = false
+          result.useValgrind = disabled
       of "disabled":
         case e.value.normalize
         of "y", "yes", "true", "1", "on": result.err = reDisabled
diff --git a/testament/testament.nim b/testament/testament.nim
index 4afafb645e61b..8fead76eff6a7 100644
--- a/testament/testament.nim
+++ b/testament/testament.nim
@@ -501,8 +501,11 @@ proc testSpecHelper(r: var TResults, test: var TTest, expected: TSpec,
             args = concat(@[exeFile], args)
           else:
             exeCmd = exeFile.dup(normalizeExe)
-            if expected.useValgrind:
-              args = @["--error-exitcode=1"] & exeCmd & args
+            if expected.useValgrind != disabled:
+              var valgrindOptions = @["--error-exitcode=1"]
+              if expected.useValgrind != leaking:
+                valgrindOptions.add "--leak-check=yes"
+              args = valgrindOptions & exeCmd & args
               exeCmd = "valgrind"
           var (_, buf, exitCode) = execCmdEx2(exeCmd, args, input = expected.input)
           # Treat all failure codes from nodejs as 1. Older versions of nodejs used
diff --git a/tests/arc/tasyncorc.nim b/tests/arc/tasyncorc.nim
index 56b8909b1fdd1..63703b559b6a4 100644
--- a/tests/arc/tasyncorc.nim
+++ b/tests/arc/tasyncorc.nim
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 discard """
   output: '''230000'''
   cmd: '''nim c --gc:orc -d:useMalloc $file'''
-  valgrind: "true"
+  valgrind: "leaks"
 """
 
 # bug #14402
diff --git a/tests/arc/thavlak_orc_stress.nim b/tests/arc/thavlak_orc_stress.nim
index 3c61f10efbf3e..862e1a0978848 100644
--- a/tests/arc/thavlak_orc_stress.nim
+++ b/tests/arc/thavlak_orc_stress.nim
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 discard """
   cmd: "nim c --gc:orc -d:useMalloc -d:nimStressOrc $file"
-  valgrind: "true"
+  valgrind: "leaks"
   output: "done"
 """
 
diff --git a/tests/valgrind/tleak_arc.nim b/tests/valgrind/tleak_arc.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8dea7c62aa406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/valgrind/tleak_arc.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+discard """
+valgrind: true
+cmd: "nim $target --gc:arc -d:useMalloc $options $file"
+exitcode: 1
+outputsub: "   definitely lost: 7 bytes in 2 blocks"
+disabled: "freebsd"
+disabled: "macosx"
+disabled: "openbsd"
+disabled: "windows"
+disabled: "32bit"
+"""
+
+discard alloc(3)
+discard alloc(4)