diff --git a/test/functional/basic.js b/test/functional/basic.js
index 6cd845630..6dc940ca8 100644
--- a/test/functional/basic.js
+++ b/test/functional/basic.js
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ module.exports = function() {
         return server.addPackage('testpkg');
       });
 
+      before(function() {
+        return server.addPackage('testpkg-single-tarball');
+      });
+
       it('creating new package', function() {/* test for before() */});
 
       it('downloading non-existent tarball', function() {
@@ -48,6 +52,12 @@ module.exports = function() {
                    .body_ok(/.*/);
         });
 
+        before(function() {
+          return server.putTarball('testpkg-single-tarball', 'single', readfile('fixtures/binary'))
+            .status(201)
+            .body_ok(/.*/);
+        });
+
         after(function() {
           return server.removeTarball('testpkg').status(201);
         });
@@ -64,6 +74,18 @@ module.exports = function() {
           return server.removeTarball('testpkg404').status(404);
         });
 
+        it('remove non existing single tarball', function() {
+          return server.removeSingleTarball('', 'fakeFile').status(404);
+        });
+
+        // testexp-incomplete
+
+        it('remove existing single tarball', function() {
+          return server.removeSingleTarball('testpkg-single-tarball', 'single').status(201);
+        });
+
+        // testexp-incomplete
+
         it('downloading newly created tarball', function() {
           return server.getTarball('testpkg', 'blahblah')
                    .status(200)
diff --git a/test/functional/lib/server.js b/test/functional/lib/server.js
index bdaa2ab80..958aa7e72 100644
--- a/test/functional/lib/server.js
+++ b/test/functional/lib/server.js
@@ -118,6 +118,17 @@ class Server {
     });
   }
 
+  removeSingleTarball(name, filename) {
+    return this.request({
+      uri: `/${encodeURIComponent(name)}/-/${filename}/-rev/whatever`,
+      method: 'DELETE',
+      headers: {
+        'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+
   addTag(name, tag, version) {
     return this.request({
       uri: `/${encodeURIComponent(name)}/${encodeURIComponent(tag)}`,