diff --git a/backend/api/tests/data/example.json b/backend/api/tests/data/example.json
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+++ b/backend/api/tests/data/example.json
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+[
+  {"text": "example", "label": ["positive"]},
+  {"text": "example", "label": ["positive", "negative"]},
+  {"text": "example", "label": ["negative"]},
+  {"text": "example", "label": ["neutral"]}
+]
diff --git a/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py b/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py
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+++ b/backend/api/tests/test_tasks.py
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+import pathlib
+
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+from ..models import Category, Example, Label
+from ..tasks import injest_data
+from .api.utils import prepare_project
+
+
+class TestIngestClassificationData(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.project = prepare_project(task='DocumentClassification')
+        self.user = self.project.users[0]
+        self.data_path = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'data'
+
+    def assert_count(self,
+                     filename,
+                     file_format,
+                     kwargs=None,
+                     expected_example=0,
+                     expected_label=0,
+                     expected_annotation=0):
+        filenames = [str(self.data_path / filename)]
+        kwargs = kwargs or {}
+        injest_data(self.user.id, self.project.item.id, filenames, file_format, **kwargs)
+        self.assertEqual(Example.objects.count(), expected_example)
+        self.assertEqual(Label.objects.count(), expected_label)
+        self.assertEqual(Category.objects.count(), expected_annotation)
+
+    def test_jsonl(self):
+        filename = 'classification.jsonl'
+        file_format = 'JSONL'
+        kwargs = {'column_label': 'labels'}
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, kwargs, expected_example=4, expected_label=3, expected_annotation=5)
+
+    def test_csv(self):
+        filename = 'example.csv'
+        file_format = 'CSV'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=4, expected_label=2, expected_annotation=2)
+
+    def test_fasttext(self):
+        filename = 'example_fasttext.txt'
+        file_format = 'fastText'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=4, expected_label=5, expected_annotation=5)
+
+    def test_excel(self):
+        filename = 'example.xlsx'
+        file_format = 'Excel'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=3, expected_label=2, expected_annotation=3)
+
+    def test_json(self):
+        filename = 'example.json'
+        file_format = 'JSON'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=4, expected_label=3, expected_annotation=5)
+
+    def test_textfile(self):
+        filename = 'example.txt'
+        file_format = 'TextFile'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=1, expected_label=0, expected_annotation=0)
+
+    def test_textline(self):
+        filename = 'example.txt'
+        file_format = 'TextLine'
+        self.assert_count(filename, file_format, expected_example=3, expected_label=0, expected_annotation=0)