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diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/collections.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/collections.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright (c), Sviatoslav Sydorenko <ssydoren@redhat.com> 2018
+# Simplified BSD License (see licenses/simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
+"""Test low-level utility functions from ``module_utils.common.collections``."""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import pytest
+
+from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import Sequence
+from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
+
+
+class SeqStub:
+    """Stub emulating a sequence type.
+
+    >>> from collections.abc import Sequence
+    >>> assert issubclass(SeqStub, Sequence)
+    >>> assert isinstance(SeqStub(), Sequence)
+    """
+
+
+Sequence.register(SeqStub)
+
+
+TEST_STRINGS = u'he', u'Україна', u'Česká republika'
+TEST_STRINGS = TEST_STRINGS + tuple(s.encode('utf-8') for s in TEST_STRINGS)
+
+TEST_ITEMS_NON_SEQUENCES = (
+    {}, object(), frozenset(),
+    4, 0.,
+) + TEST_STRINGS
+
+TEST_ITEMS_SEQUENCES = (
+    [], (),
+    SeqStub(),
+)
+TEST_ITEMS_SEQUENCES = TEST_ITEMS_SEQUENCES + (
+    # Iterable effectively containing nested random data:
+    TEST_ITEMS_NON_SEQUENCES,
+)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('sequence_input', TEST_ITEMS_SEQUENCES)
+def test_sequence_positive(sequence_input):
+    """Test that non-string item sequences are identified correctly."""
+    assert is_sequence(sequence_input)
+    assert is_sequence(sequence_input, include_strings=False)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('non_sequence_input', TEST_ITEMS_NON_SEQUENCES)
+def test_sequence_negative(non_sequence_input):
+    """Test that non-sequences are identified correctly."""
+    assert not is_sequence(non_sequence_input)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('string_input', TEST_STRINGS)
+def test_sequence_string_types_with_strings(string_input):
+    """Test that ``is_sequence`` can separate string and non-string."""
+    assert is_sequence(string_input, include_strings=True)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('string_input', TEST_STRINGS)
+def test_sequence_string_types_without_strings(string_input):
+    """Test that ``is_sequence`` can separate string and non-string."""
+    assert not is_sequence(string_input, include_strings=False)