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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import unittest
+from utils.helpers import (url_validation, standardise_base_url)
+
+class TestUrls(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    base_url = "github.com"
+    base_url_list = (('eu.httpbin.org', 'http://eu.httpbin.org'),
+                     ('www.simonweald.com', 'https://www.simonweald.com'),
+                     ('http://www.github.com', 'http://www.github.com'))
+    valid_urls = ["https://www.github.com", "http://www.github.com",
+                  "github.com", "/some/url/", "index.html"]
+
+
+    def test_url_standardisation(self):
+        '''
+        Tests whether a URL's protocol can be discovered if not provided.
+        '''
+        for url, target in self.base_url_list:
+            result = standardise_base_url(url)
+            self.assertEqual(result, target)
+
+    def test_url_validation(self):
+        '''
+        Passes when given a valid URL. A valid URL is qualified
+        by being local to the domain to be crawled.
+        '''
+        for url in self.valid_urls:
+            result = url_validation(self.base_url, url)
+            self.assertTrue(result)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()