diff --git a/test/units/modules/__init__.py b/test/units/modules/__init__.py
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diff --git a/test/units/modules/core/__init__.py b/test/units/modules/core/__init__.py
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diff --git a/test/units/modules/core/test_apt.py b/test/units/modules/core/test_apt.py
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+++ b/test/units/modules/core/test_apt.py
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+import collections
+import mock
+import os
+import sys
+import unittest
+
+try:
+    from ansible.modules.core.packaging.os.apt import (
+        expand_pkgspec_from_fnmatches,
+    )
+except:
+    # Need some more module_utils work (porting urls.py) before we can test
+    # modules.  So don't error out in this case.
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        pass
+
+
+@unittest.skipIf(sys.version_info[0] >= 3, "Python 3 is not supported on targets (yet)")
+class AptExpandPkgspecTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        FakePackage = collections.namedtuple("Package", ("name",))
+        self.fake_cache = [ FakePackage("apt"),
+                            FakePackage("apt-utils"),
+                            FakePackage("not-selected"),
+        ]
+
+    def test_trivial(self):
+        foo = ["apt"]
+        self.assertEqual(
+            expand_pkgspec_from_fnmatches(None, foo, self.fake_cache), foo)
+
+    def test_version_wildcard(self):
+        foo = ["apt=1.0*"]
+        self.assertEqual(
+            expand_pkgspec_from_fnmatches(None, foo, self.fake_cache), foo)
+
+    def test_pkgname_wildcard_version_wildcard(self):
+        foo = ["apt*=1.0*"]
+        m_mock = mock.Mock()
+        self.assertEqual(
+            expand_pkgspec_from_fnmatches(m_mock, foo, self.fake_cache),
+            ['apt', 'apt-utils'])
+
+    def test_pkgname_expands(self):
+        foo = ["apt*"]
+        m_mock = mock.Mock()
+        self.assertEqual(
+            expand_pkgspec_from_fnmatches(m_mock, foo, self.fake_cache),
+            ["apt", "apt-utils"])
diff --git a/test/units/modules/core/test_docker.py b/test/units/modules/core/test_docker.py
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+++ b/test/units/modules/core/test_docker.py
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+import collections
+import os
+import unittest
+
+from ansible.modules.core.cloud.docker.docker import get_split_image_tag
+
+class DockerSplitImageTagTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_trivial(self):
+        self.assertEqual(get_split_image_tag('test'), ('test', 'latest'))
+
+    def test_with_org_name(self):
+        self.assertEqual(get_split_image_tag('ansible/centos7-ansible'), ('ansible/centos7-ansible', 'latest'))
+
+    def test_with_tag(self):
+        self.assertEqual(get_split_image_tag('test:devel'), ('test', 'devel'))
+
+    def test_with_tag_and_org_name(self):
+        self.assertEqual(get_split_image_tag('ansible/centos7-ansible:devel'), ('ansible/centos7-ansible', 'devel'))