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+# Copyright(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT license.
+
+library(sqlmlutils)
+library(testthat)
+
+context("Tests for sqlmlutils package management file path parsing helpers")
+
+#
+# A package name "should contain only (ASCII) letters, numbers and dot, have at least two
+# characters and start with a letter and not end in a dot.
+# Source: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file
+# Consequentially, this test ensures that the parsed package name are the characters
+# that appear before the first underscore (_)
+#
+test_that("getPackageNameFromFilePath outputs correct package name", {
+    expect_equal(sqlmlutils:::getPackageNameFromFilePath(c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\data.table_1.14.6.zip')), 'data.table')
+    expect_equal(sqlmlutils:::getPackageNameFromFilePath(c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\sqlmlutils_1.2.0.zip')), 'sqlmlutils')
+    expect_equal(sqlmlutils:::getPackageNameFromFilePath(c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\mypackage_metadata_1.14.6.zip')), 'mypackage')
+    expect_equal(sqlmlutils:::getPackageNameFromFilePath(c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\st_1.2.7.zip')), 'st')
+})
+
+#
+# Tests that checking for file existance on invalid filepaths properly fails.
+#
+test_that("areValidFilesPaths fails when files do not exist", {
+    # Using 1 as a default value, functions under test don't use the value
+    # for any calculations
+    topMostPackageFlagAttribute <- 1
+
+    # Generate list of sample file paths that would be provided by a user to sql_install.packages()
+    fileList <- c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\data.table_1.14.6.zip')
+    fileList <- append(fileList, c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\sqlmlutils_1.2.0.zip'))
+    fileList <- append(fileList, c('C:\\packages\\binaries\\st_1.2.7.zip'))
+
+    # As this is a unit test, the sample files in fileList do not actually exist
+    expect_error(sqlmlutils:::areValidFilesPaths(pkgs = fileList))
+})