diff --git a/src/test/java/ut/com/atlassian/plugins/confluence/MarkdownFromURLUnitTest.java b/src/test/java/ut/com/atlassian/plugins/confluence/MarkdownFromURLUnitTest.java
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+package ut.com.atlassian.plugins.confluence;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import org.mockito.*;
+import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.net.*;
+
+import com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.ConversionContext;
+import com.atlassian.confluence.macro.MacroExecutionException;
+import com.atlassian.webresource.api.assembler.PageBuilderService;
+import com.atlassian.webresource.api.assembler.RequiredResources;
+import com.atlassian.webresource.api.assembler.WebResourceAssembler;
+
+import com.atlassian.plugins.confluence.markdown.MarkdownFromURLMacro;
+
+@RunWith (MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
+public class MarkdownFromURLUnitTest {
+	@Mock
+	ConversionContext conversionContext;
+	@Mock
+    PageBuilderService pageBuilderService;
+	@Mock
+	WebResourceAssembler webResourceAssembler;
+    @Mock
+    RequiredResources requiredResources;
+    @InjectMocks
+    MarkdownFromURLMacro markdownMacro;
+    
+    @Test
+	public void testMarkdownRendering() throws MacroExecutionException, MalformedURLException {
+		Mockito.when(pageBuilderService.assembler()).thenReturn(webResourceAssembler);
+		Mockito.when(webResourceAssembler.resources()).thenReturn(requiredResources);
+		Mockito.when(requiredResources.requireWebResource("com.atlassian.plugins.confluence.markdown.confluence-markdown-macro:highlightjs")).thenReturn(requiredResources);
+		String file = new File("src/test/resources/testMarkdown.md").toURI().toURL().toString();
+		@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
+		String output = markdownMacro.execute(new HashMap(), file, conversionContext);
+		assertTrue(Pattern.matches("[\\S\\s]*<em>Italic</em>[\\S\\s]*", output));
+	}
+}
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+*Italic*
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