diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index f70a3da1..2ade41ec 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ else
 .PHONY: build-test build-test-with-valgrind check cross-gcc cross-qemu dist doxygen gcc-analyzer long-test
 .PHONY: reformat release-assets tags smoke test test-asan smoke-fault test-leak
 .PHONY: smoke-singleprocess test-singleprocess test-ubsan test-valgrind memcheck
+.PHONY: smoke-assertion test-assertion long-test-assertion
 
 define uname2osal
   case "$(UNAME)" in
@@ -380,6 +381,13 @@ MDBX_SMOKE_EXTRA ?=
 check: DESTDIR = $(shell pwd)/@check-install
 check: test dist install
 
+smoke-assertion: MDBX_BUILD_OPTIONS=-DMDBX_FORCE_ASSERTIONS=1
+smoke-assertion: smoke
+test-assertion: MDBX_BUILD_OPTIONS=-DMDBX_FORCE_ASSERTIONS=1
+test-assertion: smoke
+long-test-assertion: MDBX_BUILD_OPTIONS=-DMDBX_FORCE_ASSERTIONS=1
+long-test-assertion: smoke
+
 smoke: build-test
 	@echo '  SMOKE `mdbx_test basic`...'
 	$(QUIET)rm -f $(TEST_DB) $(TEST_LOG).gz && (set -o pipefail; \
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 183da9c4..599e4787 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ lib libs lib-static lib-shared tools-static \
 libmdbx mdbx mdbx_chk mdbx_copy mdbx_drop mdbx_dump mdbx_load mdbx_stat \
 check dist memcheck cross-gcc cross-qemu doxygen gcc-analyzer reformat \
 release-assets tags test build-test mdbx_test smoke smoke-fault smoke-singleprocess \
+smoke-assertion test-assertion long-test-assertion \
 test-asan test-leak test-singleprocess test-ubsan test-valgrind:
 	@CC=$(CC) \
 	CXX=`if test -n "$(CXX)" && which "$(CXX)" > /dev/null; then echo "$(CXX)"; elif test -n "$(CCC)" && which "$(CCC)" > /dev/null; then echo "$(CCC)"; else echo "c++"; fi` \