diff --git a/providers/azurecompute-arm/src/test/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/config/AzureNameValidatorTest.java b/providers/azurecompute-arm/src/test/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/config/AzureNameValidatorTest.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.config;
+
+import org.jclouds.azurecompute.arm.compute.config.AzureNameValidator;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Strings;
+
+@Test(groups = "unit", testName = "AzureNameValidatorTest")
+public class AzureNameValidatorTest {
+
+   AzureNameValidator validator = new AzureNameValidator();
+
+   @Test
+   public void testNamesValidity() {
+      validator.validate("7sdaiDD00-_.rrr");
+   }
+
+   @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+   public void testEmptyName() {
+      validator.validate("");
+   }
+
+   @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+   public void testNullName() {
+      validator.validate(null);
+   }
+
+   @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+   public void testNameTooShort() {
+      validator.validate("x");
+   }
+
+   @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+   public void testNameTooLong() {
+      validator.validate(Strings.repeat("x", 64));
+   }
+
+   @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+   public void testInvalidStartingCharacterInName() {
+      validator.validate("_whatever");
+   }
+
+   @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class)
+   public void testInvalidCharactersInName() {
+      validator.validate("is/not/ok/");
+   }
+
+}